Things I like: when a chick breaks up with her boyfriend and instead of doing some self reflection, starts aggressively quizzing me on when I’m going to “settle down and get married”. you know, cuz my clock is ticking and all.
Psychological projection is a defense mechanism where a person unconsciously denies their own attributes, thoughts, and emotions, which are then ascribed to other people. Thus, it involves imagining or projecting that others have those feelings.
Last night I was treated to the old “my problems are your problems” with a barrage of criticism that made no sense, including how junk food rich my diet is – which is really weird since I get that from other friends and family at random “I need something to criticize you with” points and it’s one of the worse excuses for an insult that exists. I get why they say it: cuz they’re stupid and their slow-ticking brains scanning my life looking for low points to cast aspersions on remember that I like pizza and hamburgers and I DON’T like a lot of every-day food like sandwiches and casseroles (any umbrella term to refer to anything mixed together, pretty much), therefore that must be all I eat. Yes, I stay so thin on a diet of burgers and pizza… morons. Even more moronic is when, like in this case, they’ve previously teased me for my health diets since I eat a lot of salad, have fruit and yogurt health shakes daily, take antioxidant mixes, fish oil and gluco-gel supplements and noni juice and goji berry concoctions. So they can pretty much just take their pick between “you eat like crap” and “you eat too healthy”.
Back to how I’m gonna die alone though: This chick also said how sorry she feels for my future wife cuz she would have to “sit and watch me be on the computer all day”. Mind you, this person also works at a computer based desk job, but I guess since I put in over-time (when you work for yourself, you actually like working more) a lot, that makes it different somehow. I get this one from stupid people a lot too and it’s just as retarded as the diet slam: 100% of these people know how often I travel, jog, go to events, throw my own and have watched and read of many of my exploits doing so – however – what I dont share publicly are the common things: the bars, clubs parties, relationships, etc are just as much shared in real life conversation as they are on richardland.com (which is to say “not very often”). I like it that way. Who the hell wants to hear about some lame party or girlfriend issue you’re having unless there’s an underlying entertainment aspect to it? THEN I’ll go on to storytime. otherwise it’s obnoxious to me. But to these people and their life-scans, all they pick up is that they have a low memory inventory of my personal life compared to a large one of me working on the computer – therefore “all I do is work on the computer”. tadaa!
After telling me I’m a fat-eating computer loser who is going to be miserably alone (she even said “just like [her ex-boyfriend]” at one point. haha), she then emptied out an entire box of sesame chicken and a box of pork fried rice I had in the fridge (saving for dinner) onto a plate, heated it up, took two bites and then threw it out. She asked if I wanted some (I didn’t at the moment since I had already eaten and, like I said, was saving it for later).
The next day she wanted to go to dinner and a movie with me… cuz mean, obnoxious, poorly crafted insults from inconsiderate blowhard is the company I can’t WAIT to get more of, right?
Besides, McDonalds and I have internet work to do….
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