My Mean Girl / My Mean Girlfriend

Public Rudity, Part 1

written on Thursday March 8, 2007 about My Mean Girl

"Is she really that mean?"

Since I started writing this blog, that’s the question I get asked the most.

Just because you don’t see the evilness unfold on a day-to-day basis, doesn’t mean that it doesn’t exist. You might not see a million dollars every day, but somewhere, some untalented hack of a musician probably just made his first. That bastard. Anyway…

Car-lington Road

Even people who are just a few feet away from my girlfriend and me have no idea of what happens behind their backs.

Once, while Annie and I were riding in the car with her mom (please ignore the fact that this sounds like we’re 13 years old and our parents arranged a play-date for us), Annie sat in the passenger seat and looked at me in the back seat through the car mirror. She glared and pointed angrily.

I’ve been told that a good story should have both a cause and effect. But you may notice that there wasn’t really a beginning to the mirror incident. That’s because she did it for absolutely no reason. Yes, I am subject to random and spontaneous anger-filled pointings that are done in complete secrecy. Just a quick little one-on-one moment of animosity while the world bats its eyes.

Part of me wanted to alert her oblivious mother of how her lovely daughter was behaving, but I’ve seen too many movies where the protagonist tries to approach the higher powers with the truth… And being set up as the fall-guy to a car bombing of a federal building is a fate I’d like to avoid.

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