When Priorities Are At Different Poles

I get annoyed very easily; I guess I just have a fiery personality. Nothing annoys me more than someone who talks about themselves all the time, or someone who talks about something they know you aren’t remotely interested in for extended periods of time.

And yet, in many ways I may be guilty of this sin. I know this because when they are rattling on about something or other, in the back of my head I’m thinking “Yes, but back to me me me”.

As a member of an all girls school I am forced to listen to hundreds of girls talking about vaguely uninteresting things between 8.50am and 3.30pm. I could write books on hair, manicures, waxing (in places I didn’t need to know about) and the sex positions of Northern Ireland’s middle class princesses.

It would be easy to blow one of my many fuses and tell one of them to just shut her fly trap and either talk about something more engaging, or sellotape it shut. However, I don’t have 1150 fuses, so I just keep quiet.

Granted it may be a bit unfair for me to presume they’d like to talk about riot grrl music, feminist poets and the football. But a bit of effort goes a long way.

Courtesy, it seems is expected in everything – unless you don’t conform.
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Cartoon by Natalie Dee