It's an ongoing saga
Oct. 9th, 2010 11:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dzurladyI wrote a haiku to express my sadness about an ongoing problem.
Again
Inside the bathroom
By the sink, scattered objects
Where are the tweezers?
My youngest sister keeps taking the tweezers from the bathroom. Sometimes I find them in her room; sometimes I just have to wait until they turn up again. (I don’t know what she is doing with them in her room that cannot be done in the bathroom. On the one hand I am deeply curious; on the other hand if she is that secretive I don’t know that I want to know.)
Some time ago I bought a second pair of tweezers just for me so that this would stop happening. We had another pair which is still pretty good but the coloured coating on them is flaking off, so they are not quite as nice to use as my new pair. I told my sister that she could now take the other pair of tweezers and do what she wanted to with them, since I now had my own pair.
In a sense this has worked, since I now usually have a pair of tweezers in the bathroom; inevitably however she has now taken to absconding with the good pair of tweezers and leaving me with the bad ones. (Sometimes she also takes one of them, and then some time later takes the other, so even this is not fool proof.)
It is making me really angry, because she continues to cause me inconvenience for her own benefit and doesn’t even care, and it would be so simple for her not to. She could use the tweezers in the bathroom! She could lock the door for privacy if she really needs it! She could take the not as good pair of tweezers and leave me the pair I bought for myself in an attempt to solve the problem! I have spoken to her about this again and again and she doesn’t care. The tweezers are annoying, but her disregard for me is particularly hurtful. I am giving serious thought to stealing the bathmat or toothpaste or something every time she takes the tweezers…
Again
Inside the bathroom
By the sink, scattered objects
Where are the tweezers?
My youngest sister keeps taking the tweezers from the bathroom. Sometimes I find them in her room; sometimes I just have to wait until they turn up again. (I don’t know what she is doing with them in her room that cannot be done in the bathroom. On the one hand I am deeply curious; on the other hand if she is that secretive I don’t know that I want to know.)
Some time ago I bought a second pair of tweezers just for me so that this would stop happening. We had another pair which is still pretty good but the coloured coating on them is flaking off, so they are not quite as nice to use as my new pair. I told my sister that she could now take the other pair of tweezers and do what she wanted to with them, since I now had my own pair.
In a sense this has worked, since I now usually have a pair of tweezers in the bathroom; inevitably however she has now taken to absconding with the good pair of tweezers and leaving me with the bad ones. (Sometimes she also takes one of them, and then some time later takes the other, so even this is not fool proof.)
It is making me really angry, because she continues to cause me inconvenience for her own benefit and doesn’t even care, and it would be so simple for her not to. She could use the tweezers in the bathroom! She could lock the door for privacy if she really needs it! She could take the not as good pair of tweezers and leave me the pair I bought for myself in an attempt to solve the problem! I have spoken to her about this again and again and she doesn’t care. The tweezers are annoying, but her disregard for me is particularly hurtful. I am giving serious thought to stealing the bathmat or toothpaste or something every time she takes the tweezers…