“Ugh, I don’t know, can I say something really mean?” A boy wearing glasses asks, leaning across the table so his girlfriend can inhale every word.
“What?”
She’s almost gasping.
“I just find Olivia has nothing to talk about unless it’s about herself. She’s really boring.”
“Ohhh my god, right!”
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Everyone gossips and it makes an easy passtime especially trapped in a limbo like a train station. It’s addictive too and if you have no idea what to talk about with new acquiantances, it’s a quick way to establish common ground.
This happened loads in the hospitality industry, it felt like we had returned to high school.
Employees stole money from one another or stood in the smoking area by the bins, electrified with toxic words, as red-hot anger coiled around their blue plumes of smoke.
Going to vow in 2020 to stop bitching about other people. A lot of you probably don’t. But if you do, it’s because you hope to quieten your own self-hatred, if only for a little while, but in a cheap and dirty way.
In 2020, we only speak highly.
❤
swirlygirl* 