Not Ready To Make Nice

Saw E.T. Jones & Close Encounters Of The Crystal Skull yesterday. I'll assume we've all seen it by now ~ so, my favourite bit was the Ark in the warehouse... Saw Iron Man again on Sunday. I think I enjoyed that encore viewing more than the anticipated return of Dr Jones. Sad but true.

The local CineMegaPlex is inside one of those huge shopping complexes with its own postcode. I was telling my co-viewers yesterday about a run-in I had with the Enormo-Mall's 'Security Guards' when I used to work for a national dep't store there & was surprised to hear the amount of venom, vehemence & vitriol that crept into my voice & words telling a tale of happenings 8 years time ago... What was I saying the other day about eventually forgiving, but never forgetting? What's the accepted time-frame/definition of 'eventually'..?

Is This A Compliment??!!??!!

The Alpha-est of Males was here again earlier this evening. My orientation is obviously no longer in question...

Then again, what would you think/say when confronted with this statement...

"I obviously think you're alright, 'cause I turned down a root to be here with you tonight instead..."

Only after my jaw hit the ground did he go on to give further enlightening explanations of having earlier spurned the determined & unambiguous advances of a female Western Suburban hairdresser. At which point I let go of the wine bottle I'd instinctively grasped in 'Combat Position' & made some innocuous blokey, empathetic comment (sorry AquanD, no lisp this time... didn't think quick enough...).

However, he did let slip today that I'm thought of as a 'Drama Queen' by some staff & management at other stores... I don't particularly care, as long as they do what I want/need them to do when I want/need them to do it... Thusfar they mostly do, after a bit of what I wouldn't call 'drama' so much as 'inventive personal abuse'... but there's a time-honoured saying about casting pearls before swine.

Maybe a better approach would be a lot less Groucho Marx & a lot more Eric Cartman. Do you, dear reader, think it would help both my job & reputation if my line of abuse owed less to Groucho than to Eric??

Rhetorical... if you prefer.