Icebox-ed...

One day I borrowed an icebox from someone for my boy. After that, I returned it but she didn't want it back. Apparently she has no place to store in her big house. I too didn't want it but being lazy to argue with this really insistent fler, I relented and let it sit in my hall. She said she was giving it to me as she didn't want to clutter up her house. Later, she said to let my girl have it since she was using it as her play table. But I finally turned it into my 'shoe rack'. I wanted to give it away to the church, but she deemed it too new and too nice to donate it. Guess it's always hard to give the best fruits to God....

So I let it sit there, waiting for another opportune moment to convince this fler to donate her unwanted but 'new' Icebox, since she has always said how good people at the church had been to her and all that. Maybe that's a little hogwash too? At the back of my mind, I guess I knew she wanted a place to store her Icebox so that she can have it back when she needed it. But I allowed myself to be manipulated to keep that silly Icebox. Silly me! Well, she finally asked it back.... LOL! And at the end of it, I was made to feel as though I had been done a great favour by being allowed to 'keep' it. Anyway, of course she can have her unwanted Icebox back! So much for sincerity. And if I go cakap some more, denials will come like crazy... good thing Other Half heard all those "I don't want it, I give you".... siao. But I guess the fault is not hers cos I've always known that she's manipulative and I allowed it cos it was too much of a hassle to pick up an argument over such trivial issues...

Anyway, maybe the threshold level has gone down somewhat, I have to remind myself to let my yes be yes and no be no in future.... lebih senang my own hidup and also to steer clear of such characters.....

I think all of us come across our share of such characters or we are also such characters at one point or the other. I hope that is one beast I will not unleash.... cos the feeling of being manipulated sucks!

There's another story of cans of paint which I didn't want but ended up in my house cos it was forcibly thrusted into my car...... but that rambling I'll leave for another day. LOL!

Duh... icebox gone cold......... beep-beep, beep-beep, beep......, beep............______*getting fainter*