In the last entry I wrote about being patient when someone does ill to you. Well, not a week after posting it I find myself squarely in the situation where a naive young girl, who thinks she is God’s gift to the earth, sends me a sarcastic email that undermines my well intentioned efforts to help. She pratically snubbed me and nit-picked on every single thing she could find to insult me and make her disdain of me clearly known.
Well, my first inclination was to go see her and deliver two tight slaps across her ruddy face. I am so much older than she is and I AM married to her father. She could do with showing me some respect. the twitch. Still, I consoled myself purely by replying with a short email to say I will not be offerring any more help where it is misconstrued and harshly judged. I copied it to her father. If he is wise he will address this matter with his daughter and take her down a peg or two. If he is weak, he will let it pass and tell me to ignore her inane behavior. Moment of truth will come tonite.
It never ceases to amaze me how someone who is supposedly brought up in an Islamic environment can be so ignorant about common courtesy among people. Her behavior is so typical of an arrogant Arab. It’s like the adage, if you ain’t arabuch, you just ain’t worth much. Although in this case, her lack of concern for her father’s happiness also played a role because she certainly wasn’t doing the dance when her dad proposed and married me. So I guess I have to cut her some slack. Slack given to the young and foolish.
I am at the point where I really don’t care about sustaining relationship with this brat. If she thinks of herself as being too good for others then so be it. I’m not about to grovel to this infant and without an apology for her rudeness, all bets are off. She needs to learn to respect her elders, Arab or not and I pray that Allah will give her that lesson in a way that shocks her into realizing that she doesn’t have the monopoly on smarts. And that English literature degree is wasted on her given the lame way she blogs….haha, now I’m just being ostentatiously obnoxious to relieve my own stress.
