OFF THE RECORD
PASSIVE aggression, when used in its purest kitty cat form, is a devastating use of unarmed combat.
The smile says friend but the words are those of a foe and carefully chosen to inflict maximum pain.
One of the mistresses of malice showed exactly how it should be done when she cooed to a newly wed bride of middling years these words.
“Congratulations darling, although I do think you could have done so much better.”
At face value, botoxed of course, it sounds right but the stab wound to the heart is that the not-so-blushing bride has sold herself short.
It’s that little seed of doubt that has stayed and for the first time in her marriage she is looking at her husband through the eyes of others.
Hopefully she realises the malicious one is only happy when she is causing pain and suffering.
THE big problem with some committees is that they can never acknowledge the good work of those who preceded them.
Those who drink from the well should remember who dug the well and all that.
How else to explain how an anniversary party for a significant event somehow neglected to invite the one person who toiled day and night to get the thing they were celebrating, started and finished?
The slighted one never expected payment of recognition for his tireless work but an invite to a soiree to enjoy warm drinks and cold canapes would have been nice.
IS THIS ‘sugar daddy’ thing becoming more main stream? One older chap, of quite substantial means, is still shaking his head in amazement after a conversation with a much younger member of the opposite sex.
He knows her as a friend of the family and at this gathering she managed to sit down beside him and then started leading the conversation down an astonishing path.
In short she strongly hinted that if he was interested in an exchange of money for services rendered, she was very open to the idea.
It would save her the horror of working her way through university and he could indulge a fantasy if that was his thing.
He very politely pretended he didn’t understand what she was offering and left her to look around for a new target.