Don't you just love it...
...when you make a split second decision to give someone some privacy and so don't step into the room to say 'hello'. (You do this because it sounds like they're having an intense discussion. This judgement is based admittedly on three or four words only because you've been accused of eavesdropping before, so fuck that shit.)
And then the next morning you're given a bollocking for being an embarrassment and unspeakably rude and anti-social for not stepping in and saying hi? (And PS, are you actively avoiding them? Because that's not on either.)
Mmmmm, yeah it's my favourite way to start the day.
(For an added bonus, I love all the qualifiers in said mini lecture. "Whilst I would never think of you as someone to do that intentionally, and I don't for a second believe..." Objection! Your opinion or belief on the matter is surely not the point. The point is, I didn't, I haven't, I wouldn't and I don't. I am in fact, innocent of this heinous social crime, M'lud. {No more Garrow's Law for you - Ed.})
So today or tomorrow I've got to go and be social (with people I now actually will feel burningly awkward with and so would quite like to avoid for the rest of time just for convenience's sake) and apologise (which is gonna sound fumbling and insincere 'cos it always does when I'd rather be saying 'aren't you making a fuss over a misunderstanding?' instead of 'sorry'.)
It appears that in modern life discretion isn't so much the better part of valour as the parent of all unintentional social slights and cock-ups.
And then the next morning you're given a bollocking for being an embarrassment and unspeakably rude and anti-social for not stepping in and saying hi? (And PS, are you actively avoiding them? Because that's not on either.)
Mmmmm, yeah it's my favourite way to start the day.
(For an added bonus, I love all the qualifiers in said mini lecture. "Whilst I would never think of you as someone to do that intentionally, and I don't for a second believe..." Objection! Your opinion or belief on the matter is surely not the point. The point is, I didn't, I haven't, I wouldn't and I don't. I am in fact, innocent of this heinous social crime, M'lud. {No more Garrow's Law for you - Ed.})
So today or tomorrow I've got to go and be social (with people I now actually will feel burningly awkward with and so would quite like to avoid for the rest of time just for convenience's sake) and apologise (which is gonna sound fumbling and insincere 'cos it always does when I'd rather be saying 'aren't you making a fuss over a misunderstanding?' instead of 'sorry'.)
It appears that in modern life discretion isn't so much the better part of valour as the parent of all unintentional social slights and cock-ups.