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A couple (so far) of minor stressful incidents seem to be adding up this week:
Yesterday on the bus home, while I was lost in thought, I got interrupted by the driver telling me to smile. I think you already know how I (and a lot of people) feel about being told by random strangers to change our facial expression for their pleasure. Somehow I'm always to embarrassed/stressed/scared to say so when it actually happens, though. All I could do was shake my head, frown and look away. "Aw, you can do better than that," the driver said.
Today we were discussing holding a company lunch in December, and the one Jewish employee stated that he personally has no problem with it being called a Christmas lunch; somehow this still led everyone else to grouse about having to use the word "Holiday." Later I typed up the invite, I used the abbreviation "Xmas" in the subject header, and got told by a co-worker "you're crossing out Christ," at which point I semi-lost it and snapped that it's a perfectly standard abbreviation, for god's sake. The co-workers involved then made noises about how they weren't bothered personally, but what would the boss say? Thing is, I don't think they *are* bothered, it's just their way of making conversation.
Irritating as it can be to watch two people who agree with each other fight like rabid dogs over when trigger warnings are appropriate, I think I'm more at home on their parts of the internet than I am in the mainstream world where I'm the politically-correct weirdo who overthinks everything.
Yesterday on the bus home, while I was lost in thought, I got interrupted by the driver telling me to smile. I think you already know how I (and a lot of people) feel about being told by random strangers to change our facial expression for their pleasure. Somehow I'm always to embarrassed/stressed/scared to say so when it actually happens, though. All I could do was shake my head, frown and look away. "Aw, you can do better than that," the driver said.
Today we were discussing holding a company lunch in December, and the one Jewish employee stated that he personally has no problem with it being called a Christmas lunch; somehow this still led everyone else to grouse about having to use the word "Holiday." Later I typed up the invite, I used the abbreviation "Xmas" in the subject header, and got told by a co-worker "you're crossing out Christ," at which point I semi-lost it and snapped that it's a perfectly standard abbreviation, for god's sake. The co-workers involved then made noises about how they weren't bothered personally, but what would the boss say? Thing is, I don't think they *are* bothered, it's just their way of making conversation.
Irritating as it can be to watch two people who agree with each other fight like rabid dogs over when trigger warnings are appropriate, I think I'm more at home on their parts of the internet than I am in the mainstream world where I'm the politically-correct weirdo who overthinks everything.
