On Being Right WAS: 'People Whisperers

[Guest guest]

Mike wrote: " ... <snip> ... It's incredibly hard not to

spout " You're don't know what the *bleep!* you're talking about! " to

people sometimes but I've gotten the hang of it over the years

finally ... <snip> ... "

What I find harder yet is when, a year or so later, those same people

come back to me and say, " Oh, I guess you *were* right. I should

have listened. "

But they never apologize for the abysmal way they treated me when

they were disagreeing with me and trying to make me look stupid or

incompetent or overly dramatic at the time.

No, it's just easier for them to say, " Just let the past stay in the

past. What matters if that I agree with you now. "

Now, what matters is that you agree with me now based on the fact

that I was right and that you admit to others that you were wrong for

making my life miserable in the past when I was right and you were

wrong.

YOU in this context refers to the unnamed person, not to anyone in

particular in this or any other forum.

Raven