[URBAN NOTE] Une belle dame sans pitié
Aug. 13th, 2008 03:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldSeveral motnhs ago I was eating a quick dinner at one of the several affordable Vietnamese restaurants in the Ginger downtown when I heard, from several tables away, four people talking loudly. This conversation--compressed for brevity, I should note, but still acucurate--was a mixed-sex group, three woman against one man.
- She tried to stab you! one of the women said with incredulity.
- Well, he shrugged, yes, I know, but that's how she deals with things. It happened to her boyfriend. Besides, she's having a hard time.
- Oh? she said skeptically.
- Yes, her sister died recently, she was a nice girl.
- I hadn't heard about that, another said.
- No one was surprised, but it was sad. Anyway, I went down to her parents' place for the wake and we began talking--I mean, you can't let something like that get in the way of being human--and it was nice.
- God.
- So I unblocked her on my IM and we've begun messaging and we're actually planning to meet up again--
- So she can stab you! the first woman said with exasperation.
Thinking back, I can only imagine that was some sort of intervention. I just hope that I, a theoretically neutral third-party observer, wasn't expected to intervene on their behalf.
- She tried to stab you! one of the women said with incredulity.
- Well, he shrugged, yes, I know, but that's how she deals with things. It happened to her boyfriend. Besides, she's having a hard time.
- Oh? she said skeptically.
- Yes, her sister died recently, she was a nice girl.
- I hadn't heard about that, another said.
- No one was surprised, but it was sad. Anyway, I went down to her parents' place for the wake and we began talking--I mean, you can't let something like that get in the way of being human--and it was nice.
- God.
- So I unblocked her on my IM and we've begun messaging and we're actually planning to meet up again--
- So she can stab you! the first woman said with exasperation.
Thinking back, I can only imagine that was some sort of intervention. I just hope that I, a theoretically neutral third-party observer, wasn't expected to intervene on their behalf.
