we shared a...face

sometimes i want to loudly take credit for everything i can take credit for. just shout it out in people's faces. "you're welcome!" i just envision myself running around to all these people - "you know that "thing" you value so much? yeah, you're welcome." and then to another person, "hey you like that extra point on the quiz? you're welcome." 

nobody is saying thank you to me though. so then i'd come off as an angry little man with a mustache who feels taken for granted.

once in high school an off campus student spoke up in class about how much they needed home leave to come. i almost lost it. they thought they needed home leave?? "they go home every f-ing day!" i thought. if it weren't for us dorm students, living in prison every day of our lives, they wouldn't even have five day weekend every month or whatever it was. but no one was thanking me for putting the time in.

...

wow. maybe i am an angry little man with a mustache...