What if I’m Hungry?
I’m working from home today, just because I know it won’t be a busy day close to the end of the month. Yesterday, I didn’t eat my sandwich at work because the cafeteria had some good looking food, and I decided to have that instead of my lunch, so I took it home to have for lunch today.
My snookey usually comes home for lunch since he only works 5 minutes away from home. He came home today and said, “what do you want for lunch?” and I said, “I’ve got that sandwich from yesterday”. He said, “why don’t we split the sandwich” and so I said, “ok, you’re not very hungry?” And he said he wasn’t. I was being polite, I had intended to eat my sandwich.
What I found strange about it was, what if I was hungry? What if I wanted to eat the whole sandwich? It seemed like a strange request to me that he was asking for half my lunch. Maybe he just didn’t feel like making anything and so he was being kind by letting me have half of my own sandwich instead of him eating it all, I dunno. I guess I found it a bit rude that, because he wasn’t that hungry, I wasn’t either.
Anyway, I had half my sandwich but now I’m feeling hungry and my stomach’s growling. I guess I’ll have a spoon of peanut butter (you know, my usual dinner). I’ve got a meeting tonight so I won’t be having dinner either. I guess I’d better glom down some peanut butter now.
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Kim, it may have been the former, not the latter. And I didn’t actually say anything to him about it since he was on his lunch hour and I realized it would be faster for him to eat half of mine. I thought I was being polite, but being polite isn’t always the way people feel about things.
So I did the same thing at the restaurant last night where we went out to dinner.
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Female, taken, fire, Sagittarius, Monkey, Toronto, two kids, one grandson, IT.
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is the new 30. I want the world to close their mouths when they’re eating or chewing gum. If they don’t, I want to elbow them in the face.
He probable figures since you know him well enough to call him Snookie, that if you didn’t want to share, you would just say so.
Or maybe he thinks you need to loose a couple of pounds and was trying to cut down your calorie intake.
I guess it was a wee bit rude …
So am I today. You’ll forgive me won’t you?