How Do You Deal With Drama?

Why A Blog On Rants?

Hi Everyone,

Since I hate drama, the only way for me to deal with it, is to avoid it at all costs. This is what I mean.

Late December when I saw people I knew sitting in a local coffee shop, I went inside to wish them a Merry Christmas. Both of them offered to buy me a beverage, yet I declined. In past I would stand and quickly exchange pleasantries. Tired from shopping and schlepping everything, I sat down. Since we hadn’t seen each other for over a month, I stayed a bit longer than usual. The new Omicron varient was on our minds.

For whatever reason, I had taken pictures every few days of the daily rise of the COVID-19 case count. As I showed them the pictures, I am sure it looked more intimate than it really was. It also probably didn’t help that at some point in our conversation we were laughing and we ended the conversation laughing. I was too tired and caught up in the moment to consider how my sitting there with two guys would look to others. Especially since a few months ago, I refused to speak to one of them because in my opinion, he is a creep. But being civil can come in handy, so I began speaking to him because I barely see him.

A few days later, I walked past the coffee shop again and saw one of the two people looking sad and bored. Since he was not the creep, I went in and said, “I was just at the grocery store. They didn’t have any coal, so I bought you this instead,” and gave him three clementines and a handful of Hersey’s Kisses. After we had a quick laugh I headed out and saw someone else I knew. She was standing in line and smiling at me, something she didn’t do the last few times we saw each other. Still laughing, I gave her two clementines, some Hersey’s Kisses and wished her a Merry Christmas too. As I walked out, I wondered what she would say about me and to who. She was probably on her phone before I stepped into the vestibule.

The next day I sought out the guy I gave the clementines and chocolate to. Again, he was sitting in the coffee shop and met me at the door. It was there that I asked him not to say anything about me to the person standing in line the night before as they live in the same building. He said he wouldn’t, and I have never heard him gossip before but you never know.

In my experience she likes to ask a lot of questions about the people in my life. And the things she knows about them has taken me aback more than once. The only thing we have in common is our local grogery store, which is where I saw her last. At first I did not recognize her with her hair another colour and in an updo. She was also dressed up. I, on the other hand, looked as I usually do. Waiting in line to pay for our groceries, we stood side-by-side and ignored each other. Just the way I will behave the next time we see each other.

Neither one of those two guys has my phone number and I only know what building the non-creep lives in, not his apartment number. Besides so many people are impressionable, and could get the wrong impression about me. People, like the person I saw in line, talk, sometimes a lot. Why fill their already boring day? Unlike the black anda white featured image, gossip has many shades. And truth be told, I was a little bored that night.

Here are the Omicron numbers. The numbers are from the day before and reported on the news the date below.

December 5 Toronto–139

December 7 Toronto–163

December 9 Toronto–206

December 14 Toronto–239

December 17 Toronto–759

December 20 Toronto–1056

December 21 Toronto–901

December 22 Toronto–1284

December 24 Toronto 2456

December 25 Toronto 2309

December 31 Toronto 3899