Hypocriticalness

[Plenum]

Ha, I was right. She threw our steaks to the dogs.
And she's raising a fuss.

damn huh. I remembering doing that to my sister once. I was responsible for cooking meals a lot of the time growing up when both my parents were working.

anyway, one day, I must have been extra grumpy or something (a seriously moody child), and I had cooked the dinner for my brother and sister - both younger than me, and I was pretty much the boss of the house. I can't even remember what pissed me off (maybe my sister didn't come down for dinner when I called her, she was quite the Gemini and her ability to shift focus spontaneously drove me mad a lot of the time; ironic, since I'm quite hairbrained myself these days ...) and so after 5 minutes, still no response, I took her plate, walked to the trashbin in the kitchen, and dumped the steak, leaving what else was on the plate for her. Took the plate back to the table, and set it down calmly.

I continue eating. My brother, being as kind as he is, doesn't say anything.

I finish eating. Stay sitting at the table. My sister shows up a little while after, and looks at her plate. "Where's my steak?" she asks, and I point at the bin. She goes over and has a look, sees her nicely cooked steak in the bin, and is pissed of course. She decides to one up me and takes her plate, and empties it in the kitchen sink, knowing full well I"ll have to clean up the mess. She then marches back to her room upstairs, and a loud slamming door is heard (kinda shakes the house too when she gets that mad).

anyway, suffice it to say, growing up, things were not the easiest between me and my sister. We did patch things up a few years later, when a mutual sorry was exchanged via long letters, which was sort of like a confession of the feelings and ill-will of many years. Actually, in very recent years, ever since she became a mother, and I tempered a lot of my own self-discipline - we actually get along really really well. It's like growing up, we couldn't accept the mutual lessons we were offering to each other. The Gemini to be less flightly, and more responsible, and the Capricorn to be less single focus, and allow themselves to be more spontaneous and free in the moment.

anyway, I was quite the a-hole growing up