Saturday, 21 May 2011

creeps and weirdoes

I realised when I was quite young that I had a "talent" for attracting weirdoes... I could be out with a group of friends, and the clearly socially-inept freak that everyone was avoiding would always single me out for their very own brand of special attention. In my youthful innocence, I was always polite, not wanting to upset and offend... this usually resulted in being plagued by unwanted attention!
As I grew older, and my sarcasm and cynicism developed (the sarcasm more than the cynicism), I learnt that I had to be cruel to be kind - as in I had to be cruel to them in order to be kind to myself! So I armoured myself with a wide variety of blunt and sarcastic comments, which has often worked to great effect. But this is a prevention and not a cure, and so I have often questioned "why me? why do these freaks always single me out for attention?" The modal answer (most popular answer - for the non-Maths whizzes) has consistently been:
"Your warm smile and friendly nature....they view you as someone too kind to reject their advances!"
So what now? Do I go around with a gloomy look, the typical trademark look of all londoners?
Plus add to that a new dimension to this dilemma, what if the freak is someone you work with?
This is my current predicament. I say work with, we don't work together, just in the same place. So I've gone back to being polite, because I don't want to get a reputation as a bitch. But he seriously creeps me out...
So what should I do? This is the thought that has been keeping me awake this week, and any advice would be very gratefully received...

1 comment:

  1. Predicament? really? No hun, use this to your advantage. Talk to the freaks, learn more. Take them down from the insides. Use the pain, the annoyance as inspiration for this blog and hence entertainment for your readers.

    Can't wait to read what else keeps you up in the night.

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