The office troll was at my desk on legitimate business. Then he veered off into something irrelevant, and then something revolting. I said, twice, "I don't want to hear this." He just kept talking. I turned to my computer, put on my headphones, and cranked up the music. He went away soon after.
I can't believe I did something that rude. Usually I say I don't want to hear it and he just keeps talking anyway and I don't want to be rude so I end up listening to him with a tight uncomfortable little smile... which is why I avoid conversations with him if at all possible. This time I said I didn't want to hear it and I enforced that. Go, me! But wow, was I rude.
Today's earrings: elephants, ebony drops
Bedtime reading: Busman's Honeymoon, Dorothy L. Sayers
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That wasn't being rude. That was being consistent. You told him twice, and then you went back to what you were being paid to do.
ReplyDeleteBrava!