BURNING BRIDGES... I’m not gonna write a long Blog here—well okay, I am—except to say I don’t expect Susie, who I wrote a journal entry about a few months ago, to be friendly the next time I see her at a film screening. The reason why I say this is because I didn’t talk to her at all at a research screening we worked yesterday in Long Beach, Calif. If you want to know one part of the reason, it’s because I tried to be very outgoing and friendly to her in the past, and while we talked a lot before the screenings started, she would be silent by the time they finished up and we went home. So she would say ‘hi’ when she arrived but not really ‘bye’ when we went our separate ways. I understand that we're in a work environment, and that there's usually one person who shows up at the screening to piss staff members off (thus putting us in a foul mood by the time we headed back to ours cars), but still—I got fed up with that. While she was in a good mood last night, I don't want to be around Susie if she's in a foul one and it's hard talking to her. So...I ignored her completely last night. And, of course, if I ever see her at another screening—which I will—she’ll return the favor. What goes around comes around. Two can play at this game. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. Just felt like mentioning a couple of clichés that deal with this situation.
I blame the person who does the scheduling for our screening staff for putting me in this mess. I sent him an e-mail more than a month ago specifically requesting that I don’t get placed on a screening with Susie, ‘cause I knew that this was gonna happen, and he calls me on Monday afternoon asking if I could work yesterday. Susie usually gets scheduled along with her brother (since, duh, they can carpool together)...but last night was the first time she showed up at the theater alone. I knew Susie was gonna be there since 1.) Her brother told me at a screening Monday night that she was working in Long Beach, and 2.) Susie attends classes at Cal State Long Beach...so it wasn’t gonna be much of a commute to work. I could've said 'No' when the scheduler called, but being that freakin' Christmas is coming up, I need the money so I said yes. And when I place my schedule for the following week, I always say that I'm unavailable for Saturdays and Sundays since I know Susie would most likely be working those days since it's the weekend. I'm not about to lose additional cash by allowing her to make me avoid weekday screenings as well. WHY the scheduler didn’t call up her brother FIRST to ask HIM if he could work perplexes me. But chances are I would’ve gotten called anyway, since Susie’s brother got in a car accident on his way home from the Monday screening (he’s fine...otherwise his ghost wrote a long-ass MySpace bulletin talking about the incident Monday night, haha). Everything happens for a reason.
I guess I’ll end this Blog now since I don’t want to think about Susie any longer. So how many of you have burned bridges with friends and/or girls (or guys) you liked?
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