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Journal Some Woman's Journal: The Crazy Chronicles 17

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First, I must explain how our house becomes clean (less dirty):

Due to a lack of housekeeper, our house operates by assigning chores to each person. Every night there is a "dish chore" person, who is essentially in charge of pushing Start on the dishwasher, a very daunting task indeed. Failure to do said chores results in a $10 fine being added to your rent. If you are going to be gone on your assigned night, it is your responsibility to find somebody willing to switch with you or you, or you can suck it up and take the fine.

Guess who's going away for a bit!

Yep. The Crazy will be out of town, making my last two weeks here very pleasant. Indeed. Being that she is scheduled for a dish chore next week, she put a Post-It note on the Dish Chore Calendar asking if anybody would switch with her. In the past, I have done so. However, given recent events, I wasn't feeling particularly charitable. It just so happens that nobody else offered to switch, and nobody is obligated to do so. Tough cookies. What does a logical person do? Why, "suck it up and be pissy about it," you might say. Ten dollars- annoying, but hardly the end of existance as we know it.

But no.

Nope. She crosses her name off, as if that makes it go away. So Shorty writes her name back up. Slightly later, The Crazy crosses it off again and scribbles "NO!" across the calendar square. Later yet again, Wit laughs, shakes her head, and pens "Yes" on the much abused calendar day, but somebody is lurking around the corner...

Caught in the Act

Yes, The Crazy catches Wit as she is writing on the calendar. [The following dialogue is approximate and has been recreated from a memory which is trying desparately to block out a miserable yesterday.]

The Crazy: Oh my gawd!! What the hell are you doing
Wit: If you are going to be gone, you need to find somebody to switch with you.
The Crazy: (screaming) I had a note up there for over a week!! Just because everybody hates me and nobody volunteered to do it doesn't mean that I should have to pay $10! I don't know why you all want to make my life miserable, and you just want to get $10 from me!! Well, I am not backing down!

What followed was approximately 20 minutes of her screaming about how the sorority is against her and that the lack of volunteers to take over her chore was the result of a coordinated effort to scorn her. Can you say Delusions of Fucking Persecution? Good girl. Then she started crying and screaming some more about how whenever she talks to people they respond very bitchily to her; she cited Spex and the Missing DSL as an example. (In the beginning of the year we had a monthlong bout with MSN's crappy service, which Spex was working to fix. The Crazy said that she left a note for Spex asking what was up and that Spex's response was snippy. In truth, Spex's response was probably blunt in stating that she was working on it and that there was nothing they could do, but nothing personal or antagonistic.)

The Crazy went on, and on, and fucking gottdamn ON about how everybody hates her and is ganging up against her and people talk about her behind her and back and she just doesn't get it because she's always nice to everybody.

The Diagnosis

1. For starters, she takes everything personally. And I mean everything. She's one of those people who, everytime she hears somebody laughing, thinks that they are laughing at her because they hate her. For example, she thinks the fact that I have always more or less ignored her means that I hate her. In truth, I hate people; it's nothing personal. I more or less ignore all people unless I am making a concerted effort to get to know them.

2. She makes a big deal out of everything. This partly goes with number 1, but she thinks that something as minor as a $10 fine is about our personal vendetta against her. She takes this tiny sum of money and throws a huge screaming fit about it. Persecution Complexes abound.

3. And she bottles up her emotions. She behaves passively through notes and scribbles and general nothingnesss, until her anger really starts eating away at her. Only then will she actually verbally express what she has been thinking for so long. This means that her first interaction with somebody about an issue tends to involve screaming and swearing. Then she wonders why people react negatively to her.

I've left off a lot of the details in this one because I simply can't remember them. Wit and I made an emergency trip to Taco Bell/Pizza Hut; we just needed to leave the house. Because where else are you supposed to go for a taco and breadsticks at 9pm?

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  • i suppose setting her afire is out of the question?
    • Don't tempt me. :^)

      Actually, for non-flaming behavioral rewards we do have a stack of bricks out back that have been there for over a year. It's like a guardian dragon sent them, knowing the need would arise.
    • DAMNIT ALL TO HELL SOL!

      You can't imagine how hard it is to clean spewed rootbeer off of a laptop monitor. Its gonna be all sticky now :-(

      Man... now everyone around me wants to know why I just hurled rootbeer while laughing like a crazed loon.... quick, gotta make something up!
      ....uhhh... its an inside joke, guys, sorry.

      Back on topic:
      If everyone in the sorority (in her paranoid world) hates her, why doesn't she leave?
      • you say the sweetest things.

        No, i wasn't offended, i got what you meant.

        And yeah, that earns me a pat on the back. Any day people have to try to explain me to strangers, that's a day Evil had her way.
    • Didn't mean for that first line to sound so aggressive... was supposed to be false aggression cause I laughed so hard. Its hard to emote with just typed words...
      Sorry, sol.
      • dude, Sol isn't the Crazy, she probably didn't take offense. :-)

        As for you SW, I'm pretty sure that if you REALLY wanted to screw her up royally, you should get everyone in on it and become so super nice to her that she thinks you are up to something. It may not be worth all the trouble, but you guys could start following her around asking if you can get her a soda or something. Does she want any ice cream? Can you make her bed for her? She'll start to think, "Are they drugging my soda?" "Are they poi

      • I know if I was Sol, I would have been patting myself on the back for making you spew.

        You should know by now that you don't drink while reading the JEs or comments! Shame on you.

        ^_^

  • The ten bucks that broke the camels back.

    How are you gonna spend your windfall? A Case of Milwaukee's Beast with a 3-liter bottle of budget ginger-ale to mix/kill the taste? What will you do with the $5 left over?

    P.S.- I'm glad it was WIT and not you. I'm also glad you beat a hasty retreat. No shame in that.
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    • This is how I'd spend it...

      Wait until she goes on a furious rampage again... take a pic with a digital camera (or a few... you want her looking like a serial killer, or crying her brains out). Go to a photocenter and see how big of a picture you could buy with $10. Post it somewhere in the house with lotsa traffic (maybe right inside the front door?) the day she leaves. Don't take it down until she returns and rips it down herself.

      Trust me... best $10 you'll ever spend.
  • We had a similar system at our fraternity, only duties were weekly assigned to a room, some done daily (like dishes), some done every other day (floors, stairwells, trash), some twice a week (bathrooms, rest of kitchen). It was $5 per roommate if they weren't done and your responsibility to do them. Eventually, you'd find people that would say, "F-it! I ain't doing it. Fine me." Once that attitude was adopted (i've been guilty myself at times) it's amazing how motivating it is when you find whatever yo
  • Have someone offer to exchange chore dates with her IN EXCHANGE for her surrendering on the window debate and accepting that the majority rules.
  • Wow, this stuff is better then TV!

    You know if stayed you'd have some great material for a book or a screenplay.

  • Seriously. She needs counselling. Living with you guys has just brought to the surface issues she hasn't dealt with before.
    Now I know it's not your problem, and there's no way you'd ever convince her to see a counselor. But who knows? - she might be a lot nicer when she's worked through the shit from her past.

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