100 Word Challenge: Who Can Trust A Person Like That?

For seven years running, Eleanor proudly received the award for “Most Nonjudgmental” at the Miller’s Merry Manor annual banquet. “Honey, do you!”, had been her motto since she secretly eloped at twenty-one.

In 85 years, Eleanor’s gut had never failed her. So when it rumbled the day Sadie moved in, she was on high alert though it wouldn’t be until the day in the grocery store parking lot that she figured it out. Sadie didn’t return her cart, and who can trust someone with manners like that? Never mind she cheats at BINGO and makes eyes at her Henry.

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The prompt this week at Thin Spiral Notebook is "manners". Use it to inspire a 100-word something. This piece is un-fiction. The circumstances and names have been changed to protect the innocent! I'm watching you.

Vainglorious People

I smile, efficiently impersonating someone who’s listening.

“Shut the F$%K up!” I bellow though only condensation wafts through the biting air. Words, no.

So you continue blindly because I let you for now…

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"Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense." Robert Frost

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In The Scorpio Races, author Maggie Stiefvater writes, "It is the first day of November and so, today, someone will die."  Give us the next thirty-three words of this story, as you imagine it.  Take it wherever you like, but make it original and make it 33 words exactly. 

I have also committed to NaBloPoMo (almost sounds obscene) over at Yeah Write which means writing a blog post every day in the month of November. I did it last year. It was fun and intensely challenging and the result was I actually loved writing even more. So here I am again. Please, please, please visit me!!!

Pet Peeve Rant: Only Wasting Five Minutes On This!

I don’t consider myself to be one who is easily annoyed. But I do get that way when I experience one of three things.

My pet peeves.

Sure I have little ones that I can usually just flick off without much trouble but it’s these three that get under my skin big time and cause me to pause or scream. I hate it.

Today, I’m experiencing one that is causing me to pause, be uncomfortable, slightly nervous and a little bit anxious.

Have you ever sensed that a friend is mad at you or upset with something and you have absolutely no idea why? Your attempts to communicate, reach out to them, are met with silence.

It’s happening to me this week. One of my girlfriends that I haven’t spoken with in a while is completely ignoring me. With most of my friends, I wouldn’t give this one second of thought knowing everyone is busy with their own “stuff” and their lack of communication is not in the least bit personal.

So here is where I tell you one of my BIGGEST pet peeves that irks the heck out of me, passive/aggressive people. I cannot read your mind. I don’t know why you would be upset with me because I haven’t really spoken to you in a while.

Or is that it? I haven’t given you much attention over the last few months. If you needed something, my time or attention, would you please just tell me so? Don’t ignore me. Don’t refuse to respond. I find that, in and of itself, rude and unfriendly-like behavior.

I got your point, I think. You’re bent out of shape with me for some reason.  I can read into it enough to assume this is the case. That is exactly what I don’t like doing. I don’t like to assume one single thing. I want to know.

Do I call you again tomorrow and make you tell me what the problem is or do I let it ride until I see you over Memorial Day weekend?

God, I hate thinking about this kind of stuff. Total waste of time I could be wasting doing something I really like to do. Instead, I’m bitching about it on my blog!

Some people just have to get over themselves.

Rant over. Damn that took me 10 minutes! 10 minutes I can’t get back now!!!