soundless in the sea of singing

[nematoddity]

So we now have a new (to us) computer case--it's a 'Great Quality' case (*snerk*!) that Dick is loaning us. Why is he loaning us his computer case (for the computer he's hoping to build around it)? Well, last night our power supply died. We found it burnt to a husk in the back of our old case...covered in cat fur

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[nematoddity]

I'm diplomatic because you can't stab everyone all the time. I have this extreme allergy to going to jail.

We actually had this talk recently, Cat and the cousin and I, on who's worse, Jane or the male half of the WonderTwins. She didn't even think twice--she said Jane. I asked why, and she said it took Jeff more than two months to piss us off to the point of hating that he drew breath, and Jane managed to get to that point in two weeks flat. It's some kind of a record.

Last night she comes downstairs and said, hey, I can't sleep, I was told you had valerian? I said, yeah, for the pain tea I haven't blended up yet, it'll be in a large brown paper back underneath the hutch. She finds the bag, finds the valerian, and disappears upstairs with it.

Apparently it's hers now. She made some noise about going down to Peoples' Co-op to get more, but...think that was for her, too.

So now I have to get more valerian, and I'm just stunned at the imposition. If I'd honestly believed she was taking the three-ounce bag to use all of it

[nematoddity]

Really, the three ounces is nothing, it's more the hassle of booking a trip, remembering to get up, making sure I have bus fare there and back, to replace it. It's more the frustration factor. That, and the fact that she only half-assed brought up the idea of getting replacement valerian, but didn't specifically ever say either "I'll get you more to replace what I take", or "May I have this?" It was, hey, your cousin said you had some, where is it, I can't sleep.

*blinks*

[anonymous]

Exactly.... It's not about the price. It's about the fact that she showed you no common courtesy when she packed it off. I'd drop some kind of comment about it... like "Hey...are you going to replace that bag of Valerian you borrowed?" Be careful, or she'll expect that she can take your stuff whenever she wants.

Re: *glares at the anonymous comment*

[nematoddity]

LJ recently changed their settings so unless you auto-log in, you come up Anonymous as the default, instead of the logged-in user. *shrugs*

I think she'll understand she can't just take anything she wants, the next time it happens. Part of why she got away with it this time is that I was heavy into ragdoll reconstruction, and it was edging towards midnight. I'm not at my best when I'm expecting the house to be, more or less, mine alone--because Cat's usually gone to bed (she hadn't that night), and the rest of the house was sleeping. :)