if I am I being selfish, rude or demanding in this situation:
Paul was messing around on his computer, trying to install a new Windows appearance. We had just gotten home from school, and I didn't feel like jumping right back into more homework right away. Instead, I got the bright idea that, since neither of us was really doing anything, maybe Paul and I could hang out; we've both just been doing homework lately, and haven't had much of a chance to "chill" together. So I asked Paul if he wanted to hang out with me, and he said "no." So of course, I asked why not, and he said it was because he was in the middle of something. I pointed out that it wasn't anything important, which I had thought because he could come back to it at any time; he wasn't gaming, wasn't doing homework, nothing that was time-sensitive. But he insisted that it was important to him, and he didn't want to stop just so we could spend time together.
Paul tried to explain to me how I was being selfish, rude and demanding, but I still don't understand why that is. I still don't feel like I was in the wrong. Could someone else maybe shed some light on this?
Just a quick clarification on the whole time-line of the events. I had started a process (the appearance thing) it was something that didn't go entirely correctly the first time I tried it. So I was in the middle of fixing things. Callie was aware of this, then moseyed on over to ask if I wanted to hang out in the middle of this issue. I told her that I didn't want to hang out, she asked why, I said cause I was in the middle of something, she said it wasn't important, I said it was to me and that she was being slightly rude and demanding of me to ask me to stop what I was doing to partake in such an ambiguous thing as "hanging out."
ReplyDeleteI don't think we're fighting over this, so don't feel as though you're going to get "in the middle" on this, it's just a curious miscommunication methinks...