....... had a convo with one of your friends where you seriously just wanted them to STFU??!! This happened recently to me while speaking with a friend of mine on the way home from work. We had to cut our convo short as she was at the eye doctor and was just called back to the examining room. Not ten minutes later she calls me back:
Friend: You will NOT believe what just happened to me
Me: Nope...what?
Friend: Okay, so I had just gotten called back for the doctor to see me. She comes in the room to tell me that she will be right with me but she needs to take a call from her vet. She comes back in the room and just before she starts to examine my eye, she breaks down crying.
Me: Her pet must have been really sick or died.
Friend:How did you know?
Me: Weeeeeellllll, it was kinda obvious. Which one was it?
Friend: Girl, her dog died and then this bitch canceled my appointment.
Me: Yeeeeaaaah, that's hard to deal with so I could see why she would.
Friend: Puuulease! We're talking about a damn animal not a human being here!!!
Me: *hears record scratch in my head* Ummmm, what?
Friend: She should have just taken a few minutes to get herself together and come back in to do her job.
Me: Yeah, so you know you called the wrong one to vent to right?
Friend: What?
Me: *I repeat what I just said above* I hear what you're saying but a lot of people, such as myself and Z, think of their pets as family so when you have that loss it's hard.......extremely hard. I've lost a pet before, as you know, and that shit hit me like a ton of bricks. Unless you've had that experience it's hard to relate. I don't expect you to understand though.
Friend: I mean I understand the woman is sad but damn...I had to drive all the way from (insert small town AR about 20 minutes away from LR) to get there and now I have to drive back next with.
Me: I can sympathize with that BUT would you rather her have tried to examine you with tears and snot fallin down her face and doing a poor job at it? Me personally, I would have preferred that she rescheduled so that she could do her job with a fresh mind.
Friend: I guess. I may not even go back now...I'm pissed
Me: Bless your heart.
I was not upset about her feelings about the situation, I just really wanted her to shut up talking to me. I know she was upset and needed someone to vent to but I mean seriously.....*sigh*
Yeah I know...I have issues.