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lnrHow do you offer sympathy to someone if neither they nor anyone else has actually told you the thing you want to sympathise about? Other than fretting about that, and the fact I feel like I ruined Becky's birthday by means of the quiz machine dragging everyone away from conversation, it would have been a lovely evening. Sorry Becky. And commiserations August, I hope you do find something else. And sorry Richard for effectively taking it out on you.
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Date: 2003-09-29 04:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-29 04:58 pm (UTC)Thanks. But all is not lost, not yet....
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Date: 2003-09-30 12:30 am (UTC)If you mean me, I'm sorry -- I thought you'd know what I meant by Bad News, and you were the only person who was likely to care, so I didn't see any point in explaining just so that everybody could ignore it. I also didn't want to actually say what it was because I didn't think it was my news to tell, but then
And sorry for jumping in on the quiz machine thing. If I'd realised that I was going to be wandering into the midst of a party that I wasn't invited to, I wouldn't have come to the Carlton. :-/
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Date: 2003-09-30 01:01 am (UTC)Re: *sigh*
Date: 2003-09-30 01:30 am (UTC)I wish I never bothered.
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Date: 2003-09-30 02:04 am (UTC)I'd hardly say that *anyone* was or wasn't invited to the pub. I asked in a public entry in my LJ whether anyone wanted to come to the pub.
I didn't see it -- I don't generally read your LJ. I arrived at the pub having assumed it would be a normal quiet Monday night, saw that it was extremely full, and was told that the reason everybody was there was that it was your birthday party. I hadn't heard anything about that, so assumed (without being particularly bothered about the fact) that I just hadn't been invited.
If I'd known the Carlton was going to be so full -- whatever the occasion -- I probably wouldn't have gone there, because my original plan was a quiet-ish pint or three with
I wish I never bothered.
<shrug> Well, I'm sorry if I ruined your evening by joining in on the quiz machine, or perhaps simply by being there. Not much I can do about that though; the pub is, as the name implies, public.
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Date: 2003-09-30 02:26 am (UTC)Your being there or being on the quiz machine (or whatever else you might imagine) had alsolutely no relation whatsoever to whether or not I was upset.
Wishing I hadn't bothered is, in fact, entirely independent of any one person at the pub yesterday.
If you're *trying* to make me feel worse, don't bother, I already am.
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Date: 2003-09-30 02:35 am (UTC)I assumed the quiz machine was something to do with it from what Eleanor said, and your comment in reply seemed to bear that out -- it wasn't something I "imagined", obviously just a misinterpretation. I'm sorry if I misunderstood you, and I'm glad my being there didn't make a bad evening worse.
If you're *trying* to make me feel worse, don't bother, I already am.
Well, I could say exactly the same to you, you know. But never mind.