Comments on: The Story of the Salt and Pepper Shakers https://godammit.com/the-story-of-the-salt-and-pepper-shakers/ And I'm getting madder. Wed, 24 Sep 2014 20:04:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 By: Lightning https://godammit.com/the-story-of-the-salt-and-pepper-shakers/comment-page-1/#comment-2390053 Wed, 24 Sep 2014 20:04:23 +0000 http://www.godammit.com/?p=10075#comment-2390053 Take them back

]]> By: Maelig https://godammit.com/the-story-of-the-salt-and-pepper-shakers/comment-page-1/#comment-2383858 Fri, 10 Jan 2014 17:59:48 +0000 http://www.godammit.com/?p=10075#comment-2383858 Hi Sister, hi all the readers/commenters
I’m a long time reader but first time commenter. English is not my first language, I do my best but please excuse me in advance for my unavoidable butchering of your language…
Sister, I HAD TO react to your post. I don’t know, maybe you’re gonna hate me, maybe it’s not the right time for you to accept my thoughts that even if your present was a way of trying to bond with the nice yuppie ladie, even if you regret your gesture, it does not change the fact that you did not have to do it. But you did. And yes, it was kind of you, extremely sweet even. Your neighbor was really rude to just accept the overpriced shakers so easily, without even a gesture toward you. Her attitude was quite selfish.
I totally understand your regrets. But it does not change the value of what you did.
I don’t know you Sister, we do not share the same language, the same continent,we are not even the same age. But somehow your life story, your struggles, your pains, it speaks volume to me regarding my own path and my own tentatives of giving meaning to life. And it’s so damn painful to see you being so harsh with yourself. I do not see in you what YOU see in you. You don’t have to believe me, I’m just a stranger.
Maybe I will never again comment here, who knows.But I’m trying to send you positive feelings and I hope you will understand.

PS: EVERY. SINGLE. PRESENT. is done with something ( knowingly or not) in mind.
I should know, working in the psychiatry field.
End of my rambling.

]]> By: annemarie https://godammit.com/the-story-of-the-salt-and-pepper-shakers/comment-page-1/#comment-2383767 Mon, 06 Jan 2014 20:27:09 +0000 http://www.godammit.com/?p=10075#comment-2383767 Hi Pruny– yeah I know. But here, the generational poverty seems to be quarantined away from the yuppies. They don’t live cheek to jowl in the same neighborhoods like they do in cities in other countries (though this is changing– the conservative gov in the UK is selling off lots of social housing in order to speed up gentrification and establish uniformly wealthy neighborhoods where people don’t have to live on the same street as their cleaners). Also, I personally find that poor people are not looked down on in the same way as they are here, where if you’re poor you’re often made feel as though you failed at life. All of this is just a generalization of course– there are good people everywhere.

]]> By: Cricket9 https://godammit.com/the-story-of-the-salt-and-pepper-shakers/comment-page-1/#comment-2383748 Sun, 05 Jan 2014 02:08:08 +0000 http://www.godammit.com/?p=10075#comment-2383748 Bessie – what? She said That she’s “incapable of ever helping anyone”and you didn’t slug her right in the nose? I would most likely also yell at her “call the ambulance yourself, you stupid bitch”. There would be door slamming, always so satisfactory. I do things for people and try not to expect anything, but yes, there is this little resentment at the back of my mind when some of them show me the finger… oh well. Nobody was forcing me…

]]> By: Pruny https://godammit.com/the-story-of-the-salt-and-pepper-shakers/comment-page-1/#comment-2383746 Sat, 04 Jan 2014 21:35:22 +0000 http://www.godammit.com/?p=10075#comment-2383746 Right, annmarie, because there isn’t any generational poverty in the U.S.

]]> By: Bessie the Cow https://godammit.com/the-story-of-the-salt-and-pepper-shakers/comment-page-1/#comment-2383737 Sat, 04 Jan 2014 03:20:44 +0000 http://www.godammit.com/?p=10075#comment-2383737 I’ve done that so many times with my neighbors. One neighbor I helped out so many times, taking her food, getting her aspirin from the store when she couldn’t go, and so one day I needed her help and she freaked out on me saying she was incapable of ever helping anyone. I had another neighbor over for dinner 100s of times over a 15 year period and she never had me over for dinner, ever (I just realized that now), but I think she took me out once. I gave a friend of mine, in the 80s, a gold Hamilton triangular watch, (but then I inherited my father’s Hamilton 15 years later, which was a better watch), and threw her baby shower and never got a thank you.
Lessons.
BTW: You are generous to a fault by there is no fault in that. In the end everything is a thneed. (see dr Seuss)

]]> By: Dj https://godammit.com/the-story-of-the-salt-and-pepper-shakers/comment-page-1/#comment-2383734 Sat, 04 Jan 2014 00:29:02 +0000 http://www.godammit.com/?p=10075#comment-2383734 Here’s a random act…go over to the owners of the house and tell them you had lent the shakers to blondie and you need them back. Period. Don’t feel stupid for your raok, just go and random act at their front porch.

]]> By: Sister Wolf https://godammit.com/the-story-of-the-salt-and-pepper-shakers/comment-page-1/#comment-2383720 Fri, 03 Jan 2014 02:31:19 +0000 http://www.godammit.com/?p=10075#comment-2383720 D.R. – It’s nothing to YOU, then.

]]> By: D.R. https://godammit.com/the-story-of-the-salt-and-pepper-shakers/comment-page-1/#comment-2383719 Fri, 03 Jan 2014 01:48:32 +0000 http://www.godammit.com/?p=10075#comment-2383719 Much ado about nothing. It’s only money…and not a lot of money.

]]> By: Sister Wolf https://godammit.com/the-story-of-the-salt-and-pepper-shakers/comment-page-1/#comment-2383711 Thu, 02 Jan 2014 20:09:45 +0000 http://www.godammit.com/?p=10075#comment-2383711 Madam Restora – Nope, not in this case, anyway.

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