Metalicious
Registered: 04-2005
Posts: 683
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Re: Bite Me
Yes, yes, I'm posting this everywhere, because I am THAT annoyed.
I went to my company's marketing party last night. Which means heels, dress, getting all prettified, and schmoozing for several hours after work - i.e. on my OWN time.
Fine. I like looking pretty, I like schmoozing, I like some of the people I work with and don't mind spendng time with them.
What I do NOT like, is putting up with endless comments and questions about why I'm not drinking. You girlies know how much I enjoy my alcohol. And the JT show gets going full force when I've had a few. But last night, I just thought...nah. Not tonight. Be a little healthier, be a little less of a train wreck, feel good the next day instead of like a bus is on my head...yeah. Good plan.
Apparently NOT.
The rest of my team is a wreck today, as they all drank last night. New Guy isn't even in yet. Which...fine. It's a tradition at this company to get wrecked and then want to die the next day, and not do any work. I've done that many times. But I am extremely annoyed with BMR, New Guy, and every single other boy who was at the marketing party last night, as they ALL pressured me to drink. I had two glasses of cranberry juice, and then had to repeatedly say "no thank you; no I'm not pregnant, I'm just not drinking; no I'm not a recovering alcoholic; no I do NOT want a beer; no I don't want any wine; no thank you; no... no... BITE ME!"
So annoyed. I don't know if it's because they're British or simply because they are stupid, but I have never experienced peer pressure like that before. Am so annoyed. Have just given BMR a bollocking for being such a jackass about it. I stayed for three hours, outside of work, on my own time, sober, and he should be thankful for it. I shouldn't have to put up with silliness of people who arent' comfortable because I haven't got a glass in my hand. I don't particularly like wine, much less CHEAP wine, and unless the beer is cold, and in a bottle labled 'Corona', with a pretty lime sticking out of it, I don't want it.
What is WRONG with people? Am I THAT dull and uninteresting when I'm sober that they can't stand to see me without an alcoholic beverage? I was having a pretty good time, aside from the dumbass comments thrown my way.
So. Annoyed.
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3/24/2006, 6:19 am
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