"Don't Pee on my Leg and Tell Me it's Raining"--Judge Judy

People annoy me because of their stupidity and emotions, and when those human traits are combined, the results are absolutely terrible.

I know many of my friends read this blog, but I do not write with them in mind. I write what I think, I write my true feelings, and my blunt honesty is one of the best features about my blog (and probably a big reason people read it). I don't write so people will read it, I write because it keeps a record of my thoughts and my mom can look at the pictures. Sugar coating on anything but cereal sucks and I won't do it. But the biggest problem with this philosophy is that people may read what I write and get offended.

One such friend that will remain nameless (but everyone who knows him will know who it is) is one of those friends that was recently offended because of something they read. They weren't offended with me--their feelings were hurt because I posted a conversation I had with Megan and we talked about him.

The funny thing is that all I mentioned was that we talked about him. The exact line ("don't mention what i said about adam to brian") didn't give any positive or negative information. It was a neutral statement verifying a conversation went on about this person...okay, Adam. Instead of asking one of us what we were talking about, he assumed that we were talking badly about him and his feelings were hurt. He sent a missive to Megan telling her that if she has something to say, she should say it to him. He sent another one to Brian complaining that his feelings were hurt and how he doesn't think friends should do that.

An assumption had to be made that the "forbidden" conversation was one where we said bad things about Adam for him to get his pants all wet. Unfortunately, he made that assumption.

When I got home from work that day, Brian and I had a discussion about this. He was on Adam's side (the side where warranted feelings of hurt were caused by a mean statement) until I made him read (not skim) the conversation I had with Megan. After he read it, he conceded that Adam made an incorrect assumption and wet his pants over that assumption. Brian did say that someone should basically say, "Adam, I'm sorry you misinterpreted the conversation, but we weren't talking badly about you. " I agreed with Brian.

But I also told Brian that it is absolutely hypocritical for Adam to get upset because people are talking about him--positively or negatively. One of the reasons I stopped hanging out with Adam was because he would talk to others about problems he had with me--and not talk to me. I never really had problems with Adam in the beginning, but I guess he had problems with me. His misunderstanding of situations and the constant bad talking about me (and Brian) to others led to me be fed up with him. Adam is really a nice guy, and I can enjoy being around him at times, but he's too much for me sometimes.

Here's another irony: he complained to Megan about talking "badly" about him and told her to talk to him about the problems she has with him. Then, he sent an email to Brian telling him about the whole situation, a situation that Brian wasn't involved in. If Adam wants to keep contentions between parties of two, why did he involve a non-involved third party?

Stupidity and emotions are annoying human traits--they both lead to hypocrisy.