People Who Cannot Take a Hint

I was getting ready to leave work yesterday (Thr 3 July) so I stopped where Yolanda was working to wish her a happy Fourth of July. Surprise, surprise, she was by Yvonne, the young lady who is getting hitched, thus the bridal shower and the magnificent Thai salad problem mentioned in my last post.

Yolanda says to me, "Oh hey. I am trying to get the menu in order. Are you going to bring your salad?"

I said, "No I'm not."

Her, "What? Why?"

Me, "No. I am not making you salad. Do you want to hire me to make you the salad?"

At this point she actually did one of those pffts noises and rolled her fucking eyes. YGFBKM!

Me, "I'll take THAT as a no. C'est la vie, no salad for you. Have a nice Fourth."

I turned and walked away.

In the immediate time after she tried to shanghai me into making the salad and I said I'd give her tips for her party, Yolanda was constantly with Yvonne. There was never a private time to approach her and tell her that what she did was rude and would be an imposition on me. Then a couple weeks past and I let it go. I figured she'd just know it wasn't going to happen.

But she had to ask, again, in front of Yvonne, again and I had to tell her no, again. Besides her presumptiveness, her devaluing my time, skill and feeling I somehow owe her bridal shower $200 in free food, I am pissed off now that she felt, if she did, that by asking me again in front of Yvonne I'd be too nice to say no.

Well. Fuck no.

Maybe the title of this post should be

People Who Are Too Dense to Take NO For An Answer.


(Addendum- Today is Tuesday July 8. Yolanda was very frosty to me today. She wouldn't even say g'morning and she worked as far away from me as possible, right along side Yvonne, who btw, was especially nice to me.)