hmmm, i'm not sure if I may have given the wrong impression, or may somewhat be projecting my own (mis)interpretations onto this reply of yours. but either way, wanna make it clear in case of the former: none of this was asking for sympathy. it's not like, "oh my God, this was such a horrible experience, I feel so disrespected."

on the contrary, while it may seem weird, I actually don't take it personally. While I may reference "disrespect" - the infuriating thing was not the disrespect towards my time, but rather the disrespect - period. The complete lack of fucking common sense, integrity and basic human decency. None of which really has much of anything to do with me or my personal experience of it at all, so much as just objectively observing the impact some ignorant punk can have as going about disrespectfully in the world.

the "suffering" over it for a day plus is mine to own. other people probably woulda vented out the wave and minutes and been done with it. for whatever reasons, I held on - but again, it wasn't so much sitting in the victim role of being "wronged" so much as perhaps extracting the lesson from the experience that it's time to upgrade how I value my time and who gets it on what terms. not something that needs any "i'm sorry you had to deal with that" type sympathy - although I appreciate the gesture. lol.