Christ…
I had forgotten how fucking stupid many of the people who work at my company were. As some of you may know, last wednesday the minister for Swedens foreign affairs was stabbed while doing some private errands in a large department store. She died the next morning. Anna Lindh was 46 years old, arguably the most well and widely respected politicians in the country, a wife and mother of two young boys, future leader of the Social Democratic party and thus likely Swedens first female president/prime-minister at some point in the future. She was also a huge inspiration to me as a young woman. Suffice to say that I am, along with most of the Swedish population, completely fucked over this. My heart fucking stops for a second every time I am reminded that this has happened. This is all without going into the impact of such things on the present open society in the country, and the implications if the murder should turn out to be politically motivated. Excuse the meta-rant.
Anyhoo…
Sitting there, doing my job, dumb bitch comes over, smacking her gum, and perches on my desk. She is thumbing through the newspaper. Comes to a page with the security camera pictures of the suspected murderer. Starts talking about how he looks cute, she would fancy him etc. I say that I am sure she can do better than a knife-weilding killer. She starts giggling and tells me to lighten up. Not wanting to make a scene, I don’t call her a fucking bimbo, but instead I just say “Sorry, the whole thing is just so awful”. She looks at me, with a touch of concern, then giggles and says incredulously…
“You’re really taking this seriously aren’t you?”
AAAAAAAAGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH! YES! You stupid fucking cunt, I am taking this seriously! I would even go so far as to say VERY seriously! I don’t even get a vote here, and I take the loss of what this person could have brought to the country seriously! I am personally offended that somone as fucking clueless as you gets to be a part of deciding. A little part of my love of democracy dies every time you open your fucking mouth. I am going to apply for double citizenship in order to counteract your general idiocy.
So, I don’t reach across the desk and smack her face, but that’s only because she jiggled away having delivered her bombshell. Instead I go to grab a coffee and a smoke, and convince myself that she is an abberation, that the Swedes in general really are the intelligent, insightful, thinking people I have come to know and love. On the smoking porch I manage to dance right into a “discussion” of the previous days EMU vote (no, btw), and the reasoning, if you can call it that, nearly brings me to my knees. The best one? Word for word, “I voted no, I could never vote the same as Persson, on principle”. Somone, come save me please?