THE Shit

Being surprised at the hooded teenaged boy who holds the door open for me in a shop.  Two slightly scary looking girls on the tube, interrupting their chav-speak to politely ask me if they were on the right train for a certain stop.  (I forgive them for not being able to work it out by looking up to the map, because they had MANNERS!)  Hearing my daughter say 'thank you mummy' without being prompted.

Just SHIT

'Barbie', the student from downstairs at work.  This girl has worked in the lab for one year.  EVERY time I have passed her in the corridor or shared kitchen, I smile.   EVERY time she looks blankly as if she cannot see me at all.  I am not an egomaniac but this behaviour infuriates me.  It isn't just me either.  All the staff in our department agree that she is not only rude, but clearly thinks herself above the likes of us!

So Friday I came into work, went to the kitchen to put my food in the microwave and she's in there.  I smile...and am met with the usual blank face.  She moves over to where I am standing and makes a 'meh' noise.  I assume this is by way of an 'excuse me' and automatically move out of the way.  It takes a beat for the rage to bubble up...  I go back to my own room rather than share space with this girl.  On my walk back to the kitchen, (stay with me, it gets better), I pass her in the corridor, smile again(why? It's automatic) and again am totally ignored.  As she draws alongside me I say:
    'Rude!'
She lets this sink in and then:
    'What's that supposed to mean?'  I am almost too shocked at my own behaviour to respond...I have commited myself, I must continue...
    'I just think you are REALLY rude!'  I am scrambling to appear calm and not the lunatic I feel I appear... 'You walk around with a miserable face, you never smile at anyone! You couldn't even bring yourself to say "Excuse me" just now!
    'I DID say excuse me!'
    'No you didn't, you just went "meh"'  (how old am I?)  She replies in kind...
    'I've never even SEEN you before In My Life!'  I am so shocked...but this spurs me on, it's exactly proving my point.
    'Oh..Kay!'  Sarcastic.  I turn on my heel and walk away...(really hoping she doesn't follow me!)

Rude people beware!  I will hunt you down and make childish comments in your general direction!