As I Just Said to Stella

[mrissa]

The trouble with thinking of myself as an unsubtle person is that I sometimes feel like my entire emotional landscape is a veritable herd of elephants in the living room.

Usually I'm wrong about that. Especially when I'm dealing with non-Scandosotans and/or people who haven't been around Scandosotans much. But I'm kind of spooked by assuming I'm wrong in general and then finding out that I'm wrong about being wrong in specific.

Is that so wrong?

Right. I'm going to lie back down now.

Comments

[wilfulcait.livejournal.com]

Better to have elephants than invisible elephants, I guess.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Ahh, but with invisible elephants, one knows to say, "Watch out! There's an invisible elephant!" Whereas with the visible kind it's more, "Errr...is there a reason we're not talking about the elephants?"

Don't get me wrong; the elephant in the living room can be extremely useful. With my cousin's behavior last month, for example: people who are not directly responsible for her (that is, who are not her) can dodge dealing with it directly, and that's fine by me. It's just not very good as a universal coping mechanism.

[flewellyn.livejournal.com]

I think my brain just broke over your triple-negative. :-)