May 21, 2003
oh, never mind
When somebody says something to me like, “hey, did you... oh, never mind,” I usually ask them, “do what?” If they don’t tell me, it might as well be fingernails on the chalkboard. My mind does this broken record player thing, “do what? do what? do what? do what? what did they want me to do?” Sometimes, most times, it is verbalized — pestering the other person until they tell me. It could be any number of things that end with, “oh never mind.”
What is it that sends you — is it you? maybe it’s just me — into this fit of hysteria where you absolutely must know what the other person was going to say to you? Do you feel like they are withholding information? Like maybe they don’t want to ask you after all because they think you’ll react like a jackass, then you wind up acting like a jackass because they won’t tell you.
For about two weeks now I’ve been waiting for someone to finish a sentence. It’s keeping me up at night, it’s occupying all this mental territory and I can’t shake it. I’m afraid I can’t be more specific, but I’m told that tomorrow I should have “the rest of the story.”
posted @ 9:27 PM
What was the rest of the sentence? Now you’ve got me waiting to find out!
posted by Glenn on June 17, 2003 02:19 PMThe whole story is a bit complicated, but basically it goes like this: I work with one of my ex-girlfriends, she received a marriage proposal but felt uncomfortable about telling me about it, so she didn’t for about two weeks.
posted by Tom on June 18, 2003 08:02 AM
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