Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | the following are not actual crimes: being single, wanting nice things (little bit of a rant!)

i'm going to vent.

i really get fed up with hearing crap about being single. here's the kind of comment we single people get, shown in an actual conversation excerpt:

woman i work with: so, what did you do at the job before you worked here?

me: i managed veterinary hospitals.

wiww: oh. why did you leave that job?

me: the money. this job pays a lot better.

wiww: (laughs) so? it's just you.

ARGH! just because i am single doesn't mean that i don't deserve a good paying job and to live whatever life i feel like living! i like to have nice things, there's no sin in that. and besides, that job paid so poorly i was living in a one room apartment above a woman who was being tried for shooting her boyfriend in my foyer. this is not "ritzy living." my clothes were from discount stores and i was getting $11 haircuts. i am allowed to have more than that if i want and if i can find a job that pays more! i like nice clothes, i like my nice newish car, i like expensive makeup, i like wearing perfume that comes from the department store, i like getting my hair done, i like having a nice manicure and pedicure AND THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT even if it's NOT "just me." and what's WITH that "it's just you"!?!?! so what? so what, it's just me. do married people deserve more money than single ones? do parents deserve more money than childless people? actually, no to both. i work for my money. i deserve every cent of it and i can spend it on tattoos or shoes or even freakin' alcohol if i want to!

SO THERE.

daggone it, this is why i'm so glad to be leaving this narrow-minded stupid little office! (4 days to go. i can do this!)

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