Clearly, I'm just a cold-hearted b*tch!

Today, my mother had the audacity to tell me that I am neither tender-hearted nor sensitive like my sister. And maybe the fact that I took the tiniest bit of pride in this statement does show that she speaks the truth, but it sure takes a cold-hearted insensitive person to know this! I'm just resilient! Reason she told me: today my sister called in hysterics because SHE erroneously parked in a handicap spot in the streets and SHE receieved a whopping $500 ticket. $500 is a bit steep when most other handicap spots are only $250 but anyone who has gone to OSU knows that Columbus loves preying off poor college students and the easiest way to do that is to slap an orange ticket on someone's windshield. I did feel the tiniest bit of compassion for my sister because no one wants to throw down $500 for a mistake that could have easily been prevented, but as the old saying goes, shit happens. Unfortunately for my sister, this compassion slipped away the 10th time my mother brought the subject up in 30 minutes and uttered such phrases as "the poor child" (um, she's 20!) or "she doesn't deserve this" (tell that to the handicap person who needed that spot). After the 3rd time my mother spoke to my father about the subject I was ready to gag. As my father delved into the details of what he told my sister to calm her down ("it happens to all of us... at least you aren't injured... etc") I quickly cut him off. I just couldn't handle the sappiness anymore. Not to mention, that I had to remind my mother I was the poor innocent victim of a ROBBERY not even 2 weeks ago! My credit card, my bank card, my health insurance, all my cash just GONE! For gosh sakes, I can't even go to the bank! And then my mother, bless her heart, uttered those words "well, you just handle things differently than your sister. You're not as tender-hearted or sensitve as she is."


I mean, it's not as if I didn't raise $100,000 for kids with cancer my senior year of college, I didn't give one of my students and her mother a ride home after work yesterday because their car broke down, and I didn't volunteer at a place for the terminally ill with no money. Just call me cold-hearted and ruthless.