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(Maybe a year or two ago, as I was driving her to my house)
Adult Midget: I used to HATE when you'd run errands.
Me: Sorry. Kinda had to tho.
AM: ESPECIALLY Menards.
Me: Hmmm...?
AM: Menards was the WORST.
Me: Why?
AM: I couldn't POKE anything.
Me: Youuuuuu. What?
AM: Remember how you'd tell me not to touch the bread at the grocery store?
Me: Yeah
AM: And the meat?
Me: WAIT.
AM: I poked holes in EVERY loaf of bread and package of meat I could get my hands on.
Me: *Whole World Spinning in Crazy Circles, never mind that I'm driving*
AM: *Sees my deeply confused face* You...didn't know?
Me: .....but meat. MEAT. Raw MEAT.
AM: *Disaffected face*
Me: .....Why?
AM: Oh, that's NOTHING.
Me: ...
AM: Mom used to take us to her work on Saturdays when no one else was there.
Me: Yoouuuuuuuu hated that, too.
AM: HATED IT.
Me: Go on????
AM: I used to take family photos off of people's desks and put them on other's people's desks in other offices.
Me: *desperately tries to restrain a snort, cuz come on--that's borderline Junior Supervillian shit*
AM: Mom made me call and APOLOGIZE.
Me: ...
AM. To the WHOLE OFFICE.
Me: You realize you're an adult now. WITH KIDS.
AM: So...?
Me: You're still mad!
(Several hours later, after revealing this to G-Zilla)
GZ: Well! That explains it, then.
Me: 'Splains wot?
GZ: Her homework.
Me: Her--huh?
GZ: Midget and I used to do her homework assignments together.
Me: Uh huh.
GZ: Not a few samples, the whole assignment.
Me: Okay. That doesn't tell me anything.
GZ: They were DONE.
Me: ...
GZ: All she had to do was TAKE THEM OUT of her bag and DROP THEM ON THE DESK
Me: Annnnnnnd
GZ: ...
Me: ...
GZ: ...
Me: ...
GZ: ...
Me: No.
GZ: YES!
That, my friends? Is a level of eyes-closed-tightly, fists clenched, lalalalaLALALALALALAAAAAAA-singing 'Fuck You' that I've never previously heard of. Is that EVEN a 'Fuck You?' That's a whole new category. It needs a fresh, yet instantly identifiable description. A single-kick, anal-shrub-punting level of Disgusted Contempt. Like it didn't take that much effort, yet you're shitting those sticky red berries, pine cones and half a squirrel for a month and change.
And then I started wondering.
What if Adult Midget never wanted to SEE Me see me to begin with? What if I was just a pawn? Nothing more but a defiant side shrub-punt at the 'Dubs for making her conform before taking her back?
What Fuckin Eva. I had a good run.
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Date: 2022-07-01 12:38 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2022-07-01 01:30 pm (UTC)Middle school Midget would refuse to turn in fully completed homework assignments. Just Cuz Fuck 'Zilla for making her do them
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Date: 2022-07-05 06:35 pm (UTC)(And thanks for staying true to you and posting the opposite of what everyone requested! Now...did we know you would do that and purposely ask for the other stories?)
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Date: 2022-07-05 06:37 pm (UTC)Psssssh you'll have to coordinate that with other readers. Good luck!