THEM: YOU have MS??
ME: Yep.
THEM: My [insert noun here] died of MS.
ME [out loud]: Oh my, I'm very sorry to hear that.
ME [silently]: And why exactly the hell do you tell me that, asshat.
Thirteen years after diagnosis and I still have no earthly idea how to respond.
6 comments:
i don't understand people...
did that person think the comment was going to make you feel any better about the beast? holy hell!
i find that there are two typical responses upon the discovery that i have MS... the first is that they know someone who has had MS for 148 years and is doing GREAT! and the second is the one you got.... someone who had MS died....
asshats
p.s.
what i said at the end of my previous comment... "asshat"...
THAT is my response to those comments.... in my outside voice even :)
I do like that cartoon! Really I do.
ME [NOT silently]: And why exactly do you find it necessary tell me that? [stand there expecting answer because it's a fair question]
Yeah, it's either "so and so died of it" or you get the well wishers who want you to remove all your fillings and have bees sting you.
Suggest THAT to the average person and see if they don't respond in kind with an endless face slap session.
I'm thinking I'm going to say something like, "Well im sorry to hear that, but my plan is to drop dead after a weekend of monkey sex with Bruce Springsteen."
Or George Clooney.
Or Daniel Craig.
Or Stephen Moyer.
Or Jon Bon Jovi.
Asshat.
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