Awesome Power of the Blank
Further to a discussion elsewhere on lj a few days ago, an incident yesterday made me realise I feel worse about being avoided by people I know, than I do if I've had derogatory remarks shouted at me by total strangers. With strangers, I can console myself with the observation that they are clearly some form of arsehaberdasher, whereas with people I already know it is clearly something to do with me. At least, that's how I feel anyway. I know I've personally avoided people just because, at the time, I didn't want to have a discussion with anyone, so it might not have anything at all to do with me, but my automatic reaction is to assume I've done wrong. It brought to mind Black Books, and 'the awesome power of the blank'.