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Aggravation I know that you may very well read this Steph and quite frankly, at this point, I just don't care. The story as it stands... A few days ago...actually, almost a week ago now, I was looking for some new music to listen to. While I very much enjoyed what I had already, I had been listening to the same few bands for quite a while and I was getting kind of sick of them. It was time for something new so I began to hunt. I remember being in Paulo's van the day of Fonze's BBQ and Jethro played a song that caught my ear, being "I Miss You" by Incubus. When bands like Incubus, Greenday, Rage Against the Machine and all were popular and famous, I wasn't into music at all so I didn't know what I was missing. Now that my attention had been called to them, I realized that these bands could be holding the key to scratch my musical itch just right. In the process of downloading various albums from various groups, I was talking to Steph over MSN and mentioned that I was looking for some new music. She offers to send some of the stuff that she has and herein, I might have erred. I told her that I needed beats and what I meant by that was that I needed some hard, driving alternative or just plain and simple rock n' roll. What I most certainly did NOT mean was the Beatles, Barenaked Ladies, tracks from the LOTR soundtrack, various FF themed songs/remixes and most certainly did not include the "awesome" musical stylings of a group called the Arrogant Worms. So she tries to send me one of their songs called "Tokyo Love Song" and I cancel the transfer out of hand, telling her simply that I wasn't in the mood to listen to anything done by a band called Arrogant Worms. About five minutes later, using the MSN file sharing thing to send me something else, she tries to slip the song into the download list again and tells me to just pick it up and listen to it when I'm in the mood for something funny. I ignore/cancel it again and conversation moves on. She tries to convince me at various points that the Arrogant Worms song is awesome and I try to patiently explain to her that our views of what constitutes "awesome" is drastically different. Fast forward to the next morning. I'm happily making my way through the five or six Incubus albums that I'd picked up the night before when she tries to send me the song yet again and by now, I'm actually starting to get fairly aggravated and annoyed by her blind persistance. I'll quote the last bit: [11:13:56 AM] You have failed to receive file "Arrogant Worms - Tokyo Love Song.mp3" from SPRITE. [11:14:06 AM] Finks! FINKS: geez, take a hitn wil you? :P [11:14:19 AM] Sprite: Pres: I'm sorry, I don't do subtle [11:14:27 AM] Finks! FINKS: subtle? [11:14:36 AM] Finks! FINKS: what part of "i wont' listen to anything by arrogant worms" is subtle to you? [11:15:01 AM] Sprite: Pres: all of it? [11:15:09 AM] Finks! FINKS: fine [11:15:12 AM] Finks! FINKS: how's this for subtle [11:15:30 AM] Finks! FINKS: try to send me that file again in any way, shape or form and i'll stop talking to you for an undetermined period of time [11:15:31 AM] Finks! FINKS: :P [11:15:53 AM] Sprite: Pres: awwww =( [11:16:13 AM] Finks! FINKS: hey, if YOU wanna not take a hint, i'll beat you over the head with it [11:16:16 AM] Finks! FINKS: makes no difference to me [11:16:45 AM] You have failed to receive file "Not Arrogant Worms - Tokyo Love Song.mp3" from SPRITE. [11:16:37 AM] Sprite: Pres: XD [11:16:41 AM] Finks! FINKS: ... [11:16:42 AM] Finks! FINKS: bye [11:16:44 AM] Sprite: Pres: you were asking for it ya know [11:16:52 AM] Finks! FINKS: don't tbother with emails [11:16:54 AM] Finks! FINKS: i'll ignore them [11:16:55 AM] Finks! FINKS: see you [11:16:57 AM] * Sprite: Presentation went awesome XD�{At Work} has been blocked That was the conversation in it's entirety. So she says that she can't take a hint, the only way I could have made ANY clearer for her was if I happened to paint the words "DON'T SEND ME THIS FUCKING SONG!" on a 2x4 and smacked her across the face with it. Did she think she was being cute? Pushing and pushing and pushing? Renaming the group name the second time to "Not Arrogant Worms?" It wasn't cute and it was just plain annoying. I don't know what kinda twisted way she thinks but I thought I was plainly saying "quit sending me that file" and not "please, annoy me some more because if you keep trying, I'll eventually bow to your superior musical judgement and concede." Was I not clear enough by failing to state that I wanted something I could rock to and not something that would give me a laugh? Go and look up the lyrics for that Worms song and then go look up the lyrics to Incubus' Drive or Summer Romance and just look at the contrast and try to see me enjoying it. She posted a comment on my Xanga site that I haven't responded to and won't, saying that if I wanted her to stop, all I had to do was tell her so. If you're reading this Steph, what the holy FUCK did you think I was trying to tell you by telling you repeatedly that I didn't want to listen to that shit or that I didn't want you to try sending the song to me again? That wasn't exactly an invitation to keep trying, it was more along the lines of "quit it cause it's beginning to get on my fucking nerves." She tells me that she doesn't respond well to threats? Did I say I'd stop being her friend if she tried again? No, I said I'd block her for a while (I was thinking an hour or two to be honest) and I only went that far cause NORMAL conversation didn't seem to have any sort of deterring effect. And conversely, I don't respond very well to being bugged to hell and back to listen to a song that I've plainly said that I didn't want to listen to. Sure, I could have been more patient...if anything Helen, I know that's what you're thinking :P but in the same respect, she could have been less fucking annoying. For those of you that read the comment on the blog and asked me what happened, here's my story. |