Pet Peeves #3

it's that time again.... (yay!!) On to number 3 on my long list of things that annoy me...

Gossip. The small, six-letter word that can cause so much damage. Gossip is defined (in my Webster's Dictionary) as "trifling talk, especially about other persons". It is when you make it a point to talk about someone's business other than your own.

Now, gossip can be a good thing. But that's not the kind of gossip that pisses me off...I can't stand the bad, malicious, "catty" type of gossip that (mostly) girls are known for. If it doesn't involve me I do NOT want to hear about it. I could care less what that person does in their spare time, who they're dating, what movie they saw, or who they went out with. And YOU shouldn't either. That's my philosophy.

I had a bad experience once where this girl (who was supposed to be a pretty good friend of mine) decided that the subject of her conversations was going to be a girl that I'll name Jamie. Now I've known Jamie and her family literally since I was born. I know all of her brothers and sisters, her aunts, uncles, and am basically considered a part of her family. I wasn't too too close to Jamie herself, but I was with her family in general. But a new guy had moved in the area (the brother of this girl), and he liked Jamie. So they would hang out every once in a while. But this girl couldn't stand it. She hated Jamie and didn't want her brother to see her. She claimed that they were dating and doing all kinds of stuff that they shouldn't have been doing. So one day I get a call from my grandfather who says that Jamie called him saying, "Erin and Erica (my sister) have been saying that me and [the girl's brother] are dating! Why would they say that?" This hussie (the girl who was supposed to be my friend) had told some crazy lie to her brother about how we were spreading all these lies about them and talking bad about Jamie behind her back... I was furious! Not only did she twist things around and put words in my mouth, but she lied about me instead of 'fessing up herself! Ugh!! You can't trust people sometimes. (So, needless to say, I'm not friends with that girl anymore.)

...And she ruined our friendship with Jamie forever. There will always be that doubt now about my reputation and what I'm saying about her... Gossip can really damage your life.