now I’m offended
For those of you who might not remember me, I’m Opal’s hubbie. I’ve only very recently started posting here again, and I rarely make it out of GQ.
I just wanted to say thank you to those who have supported her and to those who are willing to put water under the bridge.
Opal can be short fused at times (as many can, obviously), and the last couple of months have been a real trial for us with her being in horrible pain the majority of the time. Hopefully that trial is at an end, as she had her last major dental alteration yesterday. She can have a temper anyway, but the recent stress has made things much harder on her, and some of that internal frustration may have added to the mess.
She has said to me that she really, really wishes that she could take back the analogy she made. Different folks perceive things differently, and if someone had made a similar analogy to her, it wouldn’t have had such a jarring impact. She failed to really appreciate how much it would offend some people, and she knows now that it was a clear mistake.
She is pretty bummed right now, even feeling that she’d be afraid to go to another SD gathering for fear of having to face a bunch of people who hate her. I don’t think that would be the case. I certainly hope it wouldn’t.
Thanks again, folks. Cya back in GQ.
Thank God for that, UDD. I was wondering if her being bipolar was connected with what happened, remembering one horrendous incident from a couple of years ago when her level of medication needed modification.
Opal, you have my respect for posting this, and a comment in behalf of all the level-headed members here that we’ve all said things that didn’t come out the way we intended and caused problems either on or off line at some time or another. I’m glad to hear that it was stress from the mandibular pain – well, not glad to hear that, but glad that that was all that it was.
And this thread could be a reminder to us all that people’s issues and what matters to people differ greatly – and that we might think twice before we post lest we gore somebody else’s ox.
heheheh Polycarp said ox
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I said “gore” too – think maybe I was trying to hijack this into a political thread?
How should we know? You said “gore somebody else’s ox”. I took it as a warning regarding animal rights and property law.
I like Jean Luc Petard’s hairstyle
I’m petard that I had to look up petard in the dictionary.
I’m also petard with my awful grammar.
Wotta buncha petards.
How do you think my petard feels?
Eutychus, I can assure you I have nodesire whatsoever to know how your petard feels! I get depressed enough as it is!
Opal, I also saw that trainwreck of a thread. Your apology was a nice touch and a reminder of what I like about this board. Thank you.
And now this straight depressive is off to see if she can’t run naked through a thread somewhere. Ain’t madness wonderful!
CJ
I dunno, wanna bring it over so’s I can feel it?
My petard has been killing me but I’m trying those new Kleenex brand butt wipes…ahhhhhhh…SO much better. I can’t even tell you.
Zette
Please don’t, Zette… telling us how your petard feels would be a little too much information!
Personally, I would prefer if people didn’t comment on my petard.
BTW - Classy thread Opal
Yeah…real classy…
The high road, Darwin’s Finch. Even if Opal here is only pretending to take it, take the high road. Don’t go down to her level.
Just curious. What is this link that keeps getting deleted? I don’t want another copy of the deleted link, mind, just wondering what it linked to.
Tenebras
Beeblebrox: yeah, I know. It’s hard sometimes though, I tell ya. But, that was the last I will say on the matter.