today thursday 11th mar, 2010

So today with osm started off to a very rough start, but eventually calmed down as the day progressed.............................

Went to visit Mr. osm at about 10am this morning and he was helping himself to bread and butter! i had something to give him, so i just say a quick hi and drop it off on his coffee table in a bid to let him continue with his meal and that went out of hand.

Me: Goodmorning Mr. osm

Mr. osm: Morning! (bread and butter in mouth)

at this point, i proceed to drop the stuff on his coffee table and exit quietly............

Mr. osm: COME! what is that?

Me: oh its the stuff we talked about 2 days ago

Mr. osm: what? i did not talk about anything with you, you have not told me anything. How dare you just walk in without saying anything and drop stuff on my own coffee table! Look, i am warning you! i hope you know i am replacing your friend and things have changed! i am your new friend now and our friendship would be handled my way. If you and your friend had any kind of understanding, you and i don't. remember i warned you 2 days ago not to say umhmnn to me again (at this point, i'm wondering how that came into the mix). Be warned!

Me: But i said good morning when i entered your house this morning, before i proceeded to drop the stuff on your coffee table and we had already discussed this.

Mr. osm: i don't care if you say goodmorning or not!

really? cuz i remember a discussion we had 4 months ago. that went like this.............

i put a call through to osm and he answers...................

Mr. osm: Hello

Me: Hello (and i proceed to explain why i had called)

then he cuts in

Mr. osm: What is wrong with you, why would you call me and not greet me?

Me: but i said hello before i started talking

apparently where he comes from, that isn't a form of greeting!

Mr. osm: yes, is that good morning, or don't you know you should say good morning? i have been warning you, you are rude! you have a bad habit. it is very bad and bla bla bla.

and now all of a sudden and out of the blues, he says to me today that it doesn't matter if i greet him or not! hmmmmmmmm osm! will you ever change?

the adventures of moi and osm!

Haven't been here in a while as usual, life happened! lost someone close to me and i have been trying to wrap my head around all recent happenings!

promised the last time i was here that i would work on myself, not complain and most importantly not hurl insults at my fellow road users even though they deserve it. well...........i kinda like tried for like one week straight and it felt good, then life happened and i kinda just lashed out and around a bit, but i kept it together most of the time. it's kinda going to be a bit more difficult these days as there is a new friend constantly in my face who is working my last nerve!

lets call my friend Mr. OSM! just so you know, what Mr. osm and i have is friendship by compulsion and not by choice, so as much as i wanna dump this friend of mine, i cannot, until a miracle happens.

By the way, Mr. osm and i have some history, he had to stand in for a friend of mine for about 3 weeks some time last year, and those were three hellish weeks for me! Now my friend has moved out of town and Mr. osm ends up as my new BFF. I think this Mr. osm derives pleasure from a subservient friend. He loves the Master-Servant relationship and cannot understand the need for any other kind of relationship. He loves the terms "i have warned you never to" "How dare you not agree with me" and the list goes on! By the way, he has a thing for always hanging up on you and promising to unleash terror! My friend says surprises are his speciality.

I on the other hand, am averse to the Master-Servant set up, so there has been a lot of resistance from my end. But will osm leave me alone, how can? He cannot wrap his head around the fact that i will not give him pleasure by being subservient! He tries with all his might to break me, but i will not just be broken, so now he says "You have a very bad attitude", "You can not accept change" and bla bla bla.

So today alone, i heard the words he has labelled me with and i got hung up on, all by my friend. It would be interesting to see what tomorrow holds with him.

Through the drive home, i kept saying to myself, that osm might be a way to test my resolve to restrain myself from lashing out, so here goes...................