Narcissism
Dec. 2nd, 2024 07:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphilo I got backed into a conversational corner yesterday by a bully who left me no way out but submission or confrontation. I hate to be rude and hate being put in a situation where rudeness is the only defence.
The bully is taking part in an amateur panto. Won't shut up about it. I went to one of their pantos once. It was the most incompetent entertainment I've ever seen- apart that is from children's nativity plays (which are in a class of their own.)
"Are you coming?" They asked when they had me all by myself.
"No," I said.
"Why not?" they asked.
"I don't like pantos" I said. Not clever and not even entirely honest. "I don't like your pantos" would have been more accurate.
"But this will be different. It has singing and dancing, Belly-dancing, even."
"Sounds like a panto to me...."
"Well, I just wish people would support me, it has been noted. I have taken note of it"
This from someone we do a lot of running round after. Who, if you want to be petty, owes us money for taxi fares.....
Grrrrrr..... Fucking narcissists.
Have you noticed, by the way, how narcississm has become the bugbear de jour? It's all over the electronic world. "How to Spot a narcissist" "Five things that narcissists do" and so on. It'll pass.
The bully is taking part in an amateur panto. Won't shut up about it. I went to one of their pantos once. It was the most incompetent entertainment I've ever seen- apart that is from children's nativity plays (which are in a class of their own.)
"Are you coming?" They asked when they had me all by myself.
"No," I said.
"Why not?" they asked.
"I don't like pantos" I said. Not clever and not even entirely honest. "I don't like your pantos" would have been more accurate.
"But this will be different. It has singing and dancing, Belly-dancing, even."
"Sounds like a panto to me...."
"Well, I just wish people would support me, it has been noted. I have taken note of it"
This from someone we do a lot of running round after. Who, if you want to be petty, owes us money for taxi fares.....
Grrrrrr..... Fucking narcissists.
Have you noticed, by the way, how narcississm has become the bugbear de jour? It's all over the electronic world. "How to Spot a narcissist" "Five things that narcissists do" and so on. It'll pass.
