Feeling bad...

[conuly]

I yelled at somebody in feminist for being stupid (I didn't actually say that, but I meant it really loudly) for thinking there was a chance a stupid hoax was true even though there was no supporting evidence for it.

And now I feel kinda bad.

Not very bad, because, y'know, contrary to some people's beliefs, I am Not a Nice Person, but a little bad. The last time I felt like this was a year ago, when I finally got mad enough to yell at the person who kept leaving her driveway gates open into the sidewalk, and told her how inconsiderate that is for people who might have to actually use the sidewalk - and it worked. I wouldn't've felt bad if it hadn't worked, but it did work, and if I'd known it would've worked, I would have just hung out at her house until I caught her at it, then asked her politely to knock it off and either close the gates or open them into the driveway instead of into the sidewalk.

But I digress. Now I feel a little bad. And I could say that she started it for implying that I hadn't read her post, when, indeed, I had read it, but that's a preschool playground excuse, and I really ought to try to act better than that.

But if I go now and apologise, I don't think I can do that without sounding either harassed (I said I was sorry, can you drop it?) or snotty (God, I'm sorry, I didn't realize you were so sensitive!) or still irked (because I hate it when people think I haven't heard what they said when, indeed, I have. I know she said that she "didn't know if it was true", my point was that there was no logical reason to believe there was any way it could be true).

Drat. I'm going to have to say sorry anyway, because I feel bad.

Maybe if I give it another hour or so....

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[peaseblossom03.livejournal.com]

I think I know what you mean. I know I lose patience with the gullible lots of the time.

I mean, except when it's me.