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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsAre you the subject of someone's horror story?
I'm sure I am the subject of many. At at least one job I was a lousy cow-irker, and at several homes I was a horrible roommate. All back in the day.
You?
ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)except me
pscot
(21,024 posts)Duer 157099
(17,742 posts)But I imagine it's probably true, somehow, somewhere.
Sophiegirl
(2,338 posts)Gee thanks for bringing up memories of my sordid past life.
cliffordu
(30,994 posts)ever since I gave his wife back.
Flashmann
(2,140 posts)Just to one person that I'm aware of.....My wife's crazy ass,hypocritical,bible thumping,rabid,frothing,foaming at the mouth teabag aunt...
She constantly whines to her sister,my mother in law,that I don't treat her fairly or respectfully,after I've countered her latest bit of gibberish with some verifiable fact,or some actual sane reasoning.....
I'm so ashamed of myself.....
Sekhmets Daughter
(7,515 posts)But, like lightning, I rarely strike twice.
hunter
(38,317 posts)I like to think in a Peter Sellers' Inspector Jacques Clouseau to Herbert Lom's Chief Inspector Dreyfus kind of way, but sometimes I'm just a horror and sadly it's not "all back in the day."
At the beginning of my most recent self-inflicted medical misadventure (I quit taking one of my meds against medical advice) I smiled lamely and told my doctor I must be one of his more non-compliant patients. He and my wife didn't think that was funny.
Bertha Venation
(21,484 posts)It's good to see you.
hunter
(38,317 posts)Kali
(55,014 posts)I am a parent!
raccoon
(31,111 posts)Aristus
(66,388 posts)I've been dumped a number of times in my life. But only twice have I been the one doing the dumping. I handled neither incident well. The slightly worse of the two was when my current girlfriend (an innocent, blameless rebound who deserved better than me) showed up unannounced at my door less than a minute after I had gotten off the phone with my ex-girlfriend; she had called to reconcile and get back together. I was on my way out the door to her place when current GF showed up on my porch.
I did a very bad job of trying to explain and let her down easy. It didn't end well. She was a little emotionally unstable to begin with, and this made her crack. She became very upset and started yelling. Then she started to storm off without a jacket, into the cold night. I begged her to take an old jacket of mine to keep her warm. I put it on her, and she burst into tears. I couldn't console her. She wandered away into the night, crying. I never saw her again.
The one positive I brought away from this awful incident was that that ex-girlfriend is now my wife, and we've been married for 14 years. At least my other GF's suffering wasn't a prelude to another unhappy relationship. Small comfort, I know.
To this day, I wonder if she talks about it to her friends, and if so, if she describes me in a way I deserve...
RebelOne
(30,947 posts)graywarrior
(59,440 posts)Big time.
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)When I was going for my master's in screenwriting at the UCLA film school I had to make a student film for a required course. You couldn't escape without making a student film from start to finish, even if you were just into writing. I came up with a script about a little girl who's emotionally abused by her mother and left alone while she goes out with men at night and threatened with abuse by a boyfriend her mother brings home. But the little girl's toy doll on whom she counts for emotional support and that never leaves her arms comes to life and becomes a killer doll, killing the mother's boyfriend. I had to buy two identical dolls, one in which I put pitch black eyes and black make-up around the eyes to represent the evil doll. I did stop-motion animation with my super-8 movie camera
for the final scene at night when the doll comes alive, grabs a knife, and kills the evil boyfriend, using the movie camera's single-frame feature and moving the doll's head, arms, and legs an inch or two between shots which took a lot of time. It looked surprisingly good especially because it was shot in the darkness and shadow. Like all film students, I had no money and had to advertise in an actors newspaper in Hollywood for actors who participate in student films for free because they get exposure. I hired a very pretty and talented little girl whose mother was really pushing her to get into movies. The mother was a good and responsible person who came to all the days of shooting to supervise her daughter and I could see that she was the one with all the ambition. The horror within the horror story is that I started running low on money to get the film developed (I had to reshoot several scenes unfortunately because my lighting technique needed improvement) and my biggest problem was with sound. I simply couldnt master sound editing skills. UCLA then had antiquated sound editing equipment in its film lab and the sound tape was not synchronized to the picture and the student had to approximate the synchronization while running it on a separate reel than the film.
To make a long story short, I ran out of time and I couldnt get the sound right and I had to show my film on the student showcase day as a silent movie with only the music. I did get a good grade however because they saw how much effort I had put into it. But the little girls mother hit the roof when she saw that and got mad at me for giving her a videotape copy of a silent super 8 film. She had hoped to use the student film to showcase her daughters acting talent to get an agent. The mother insisted that I finish the film to add the sound and threatened to sue. I was absolutely flat dead broke at that time and couldnt do it, much to my regret. I dont think anyones ever been that mad at me and I understand. I just didnt have sound editing skills with that UCLA equipment.
harmonicon
(12,008 posts)From what I remember about my grandparents' dairy farm, they wanted the cows to be pretty calm.
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)Denninmi
(6,581 posts)But it's mutual. Enough said.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)In that case more than 6 but less than a dozen.
All involved in exposing corruption and cutting off the revenue flow.
Its not the ones that threaten you that you have to worry about, its the one that you never hear.