You know one thing I really hate about Fridays at work? It’s that moment towards the end of the afternoon when a colleague pipes up “so what’s everyone doing at the weekend?” in such an enthusiastic manner that you just feel she’s only asking so she can proceed to tell you all about what exciting things she and her boyfriend will be doing.
Do you know what colleague? I don’t want to know what you’re doing this weekend. I don’t want to hear about the party you’re going to or your trip to the theatre. I don’t want to listen to the long list of what you have planned.
Hearing it reminds me of what I wish I was doing and of what I assume everyone else but me is doing (even though I know they’re probably not).
So I don’t want to know. If I did, I would have asked you. But as I didn’t ask, please don’t insist on telling me.
And I don’t want to tell you that I’m not really doing anything. I don’t want you to know that I have no party to go to. I don’t want to say that my list of plans mostly consists of sitting around alone in front of the TV.
Verbalising it reminds me of how it will be and somehow makes it more real. By the same token if I don’t say it out loud, maybe it won’t happen. I know that doesn’t make any sense. What it boils down to though is: I don’t want to tell you, so please don’t ask.
She is in essence a nice person and I wish she hadn’t brought on this little rant. I feel I’m being horrible and bitter. It’s just that I hate, hate, hate that damn question.
6 comments:
i hope you do have a great weekend...and sitting in front of the tv sounds nice and relaxing to me. screw her!
Thanks :) I need to learn to rise above it and not let myself be so affected by it. I think she's probably just excited and oblivious to how it might come across to others.
You have a good one too.
how bout when they ask you on monday "so how was your weekend? what did you do?" yeah like they really wanna hear bout how i was massively unexciting per usual during the weekend.
Yep, how was your weekend is probably my second most hated question. The thing is, I do know other people (in real life as well as on here) who don't really get up to that much on the weekend, so it's not as if I'm the only unexciting one around. It just feels like it when people ask "what did you do?" obviously expecting that you did do something, and you have nothing to tell them.
We've all got those colleagues. Some obnoxious, some genuinely nice. My current colleauges who discuss this with me are much older and don't do much on weekends either. Hahaha. I often gloss over "sit alone in front of the TV" and say stuff like "had a relaxing weekend at home." I honestly can't stand the thought of being scheduled 24/7, I need that "me" time a LOT. We all recharge in our own ways.
u hit another nail right in the head with this 1 2.......
you like a mirror 4 my emotions/thoughts.......
even tho i'm a guy - bein socailly inept means the same 4 a gal as a guy i guess.........
Post a Comment