Something positive actually came of this gossiping bunch here, translated…
As we met up, Juan-Juan started ranting about her husband’s misbehaviors after he got drunk, she said, although she could understand how hard it was, that her husband needed to go out for drinking rounds with clients, working in the sales department, but she hated how he’d not measured how much he was capable of consuming, every time, he’d needed to drink until he’d, passed out.
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“Last night, the security guard of my building notified me again, that the taxi brought my husband home, wanted me to get him, who’d become, dead drunk upstairs, I’d lost, all of my face now!”
As everybody was chiming in, affirming the sorrows of Juan-Juan, started attacking her husband, Yvonne who was sitting next by said, “At least, your husband didn’t insist on getting on the road drunk, he did, take a cab home, keeping himself, as well as others safe, you should, applaud him for it!”
What Yvonne said was true, there are, so many news stories of drunk drivers hurting others, and, although Juan-Juan’s husband’s records needs improvement, but every time, he’d gotten home in a cab, didn’t insist on driving home drunk, it is, a commendable behavior after getting drunk.
Juan-Juan continued on the extension of the subject discussion, “I’d not only needed to pay for his cab fare, the driver would often ask me for another extra $1,000N.T. for the clean up………”, the group of us, who’d not known the costs started chit-chatting again, and we’d gotten into the parade line, in calling the driver awful.
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Yvonne stood up, said, “How is that overcharging? The customers had, barfed all over inside the cab, they’d needed to, pay for the clean up as usual, plus, it is, very hard, to clean up the vomit, there would be the stench that’s always, left behind! The drivers, whether they’d cleaned it to taken their cabs into the carwash to get it cleaned, it’d taken time and money, having you pay $1,000N.T. is quite reasonable!”
I don’t know what others may think of Yvonne’s interpretations, but I’m in awe at her, for being able to, interpret the events using a positive angle, and her ability to empathize. Says who, there’s nothing to take from, from the ladies sharing gossips, I’d learned from Yvonne today in the “drinking coffee and gossiping” rounds with my girlfriends, the importance to view things in a positive way.
So, in this case, gossiping has its perks, it lets you absorb other people’s experiences and internalizing it, so you can gain the wisdoms, and that goes for EVERY conversation that people are having, that you either overheard, are a part of, or just, listening in, there’s always, something to be learned, from the experiences of others.
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