Sensitive kind people unite!

frazzled1
Mon, 23 May 2011 11:06:14 +0000

Some people just aren’t all that good at putting other people in their places. I know I’m not. When someone asks me a question that’s out of line, I go through this painfully slow process of realization - “What did she say? My outfit? There’s something wrong with my outfit? What’s wrong with my outfit? Is something missing? Wait a minute - did she just diss me? What the !@#$?”

I know there are clever ways of responding when you’re put on the spot in public, or even just the time-honored Miss Manners comback: “why would you ask a question like that?” I can never think of them quickly enough. Part of it is that I’m just so taken aback by someone asking me that kind of question, because I’d never do it to someone else.