RubyMars:He sent me a message a few weeks ago, but I’d already kind of snuck in that I didn’t want to waste his timeanymore.
AHall80:Goodgirl
RubyMars::)
AHall80:I need to go. I’ll msgyousoon.
RubyMars:Okay. Bye bye.Besafe.
AHall80:Youtoo,RC.
* * *
April21,2009
AHall80:Tell me something good that happenedtoyou.
RubyMars:Hellotoyou.
RubyMars:I quit my jobtoday.
AHall80:….
AHall80:Forreal?
RubyMars:Forreal.
AHall80:Whathappened?
RubyMars:I snapped. I went into the shop to talk to my aunt about a change she wanted to make to a dress, and she started saying some really mean things to me…. I stood there wanting to cry. I didn’t, which I deserve an award for, but I wanted to. Then she said something about how she could find someone as good as me for less money and it got me thinking about you, and I just told herIquit.
AHall80:What didshesay?
RubyMars:She said I was lucky I was related to her or she would’ve fired me a long time ago, how my work was substandard, that my family had babied me for too long, and that I wasn’t sixteen anymore and I needed to grow up… just a bunchofcrap.
AHall80:….
RubyMars:No one has ever talked to me like that before. It really hurt myfeelings.
RubyMars:I probably sound like a baby saying that, but who cares. I don’t want to lie to you and make it seem like I laughed in her face or anything. I wish Iwouldhave.
AHall80:You don’t sound like a baby, Rubes. Your aunt sounds like a witch, and I don’t mean that with a W. She sounds like an unhappyperson.
RubyMars:She is mean and unhappy. Her husband cheats on her all the time. I feel bad for her, but I don’t get why she takes it out on me andeveryoneelse.
AHall80:Cheating on her or not, that pissesmeoff.
AHall80:Alot
AHall80:You quitforsure?
RubyMars:Yeah. My hands started getting sweaty and I wanted to throw up and my heart started beating really fast, but I quit. That’s how I told her, “Iquit.”
RubyMars:Part of me regrets not making more of a spectacle of it. Like flicking her off or saying something really good like “You’ll never find someone better than me” or “You’ll regret this” or shoving a mannequin over when Iwalkedout.
RubyMars:Ohwell.
RubyMars:I’m trying to make a joke about this so I don’tthrowup.
