Grievances

Forgetting · IcyYou missed the one thing I asked of you.I have the guest list, the seating plan and your signature, in that order.Explain, and begin with the part you did not forget.Bianca Ferrante Plead Lateness · LoudYou told my whole team the wrong time. Again.Twelve women in full pads stood in a car park for an hour.I keep score, and tonight you are the opposing side.Tamsin Rowe Plead Ignoring · TearfulYou texted me on the worst night of my year.I was twelve hours into a shift and I read it in a stairwell.I have not decided if I forgive you. Say something small.Olu Adeyemi Plead Forgetting · IcyYou forgot a date I have in writing.It is in your handwriting, in my diary, underlined twice.I have audited ledgers with fewer lies. Proceed.Katarina Novak Plead Lateness · IcyYou cancelled on me for the third time, and it is in my notes.I have delivered a good third of this town's children and not one was this late.Sit. Tell me what was more important.Orla Doherty Plead Rudeness · LoudYou came to my studio and talked through the whole class!I count in two languages, and you made me lose both.Out loud, now. Why were you so interesting?Luz Barrientos Plead Breaking · SarcasticYou borrowed my boat without asking, which was bold.You returned it with a dent, which was a statement.Tell me the wind did it. I enjoy a good fiction.Sigrid Nyberg Plead Lateness · SarcasticYou were late to my first big win dinner. How very you.I gave the toast without you, and it was excellent.I thanked everyone who came. That is a short list.Aaliyah Whitfield Plead Breaking · TearfulYou ate the last bun from the batch I was saving for a client.I counted them. I boxed them. I labelled them.You get one chance to tell me it was an accident.Hyun-ah Jung Plead Rudeness · LoudYou talked through my aria in front of the whole front row!Twenty-five years of Carmen and I have never been so interrupted.Stand up and explain yourself, in a good voice.Ottavia Greco Plead Breaking · SarcasticYou broke my prototype and said it was practically already broken.Zouzou took four years and walks better than you do.Present your plan for rebuilding a quadruped, and make it detailed.Fatima Bensaid Plead Ignoring · IcyYou ignored ten missed calls, and I have a log.I run twelve coaches and have not missed a call in thirty years.Account for your phone. Slowly.Joanna Pruszynski Plead Lying · TearfulYou lied about the weekend, and I found the receipt.It was in the crawlspace, folded very small, like a secret.Tell me the truth, and don't cry before I do.Dagmar Keller Plead Rudeness · SarcasticYou embarrassed me on the air, and my listeners know.Three hours of phone-ins and traffic, and they all asked about you.I have the tape. I have the caller. I have time.Winnie Chaudhry Plead Forgetting · LoudYou forgot the anniversary and sent flowers to my own shop!To a florist! The roses were mine and they were delivered to me!Tell me you were joking, and tell me with feeling.Esperanza Lozano Plead Lateness · TearfulYou said you'd run with me, and you showed up with a coffee.I trained twelve people on the Alster this week and not one of them brought a coffee.Take the cup. Now tell me why.Linnea Vogt Plead Lying · SarcasticYou told me you had read the contract. Page two disagrees.I plan weddings for a living and I know a bluff when it is wearing a tie.Say it again, and watch my eyebrow.Bianca Ferrante Plead Breaking · LoudMy helmet has a crack in it, and you are the only one who sat in my car.Don't say it was already like that. I have a photograph.Get on the floor of this rink and look me in the eye.Tamsin Rowe Plead Forgetting · TearfulYou forgot my birthday, and I told myself I didn't care.It was a lie, and the cake was very small.Sit with me. I made the cake anyway.Olu Adeyemi Plead Lying · IcyYour expenses do not reconcile, and I have checked twice.There is a dinner on the fourteenth that I do not remember attending.Provide an explanation, or provide the receipt.Katarina Novak Plead Ignoring · SarcasticI wrote your results on a card, and you have not rung.I have waited by the phone like a patient in a film.How lovely that you are well enough to ignore me.Orla Doherty Plead Lateness · TearfulThe class started an hour ago and the music is still playing.I kept one chair empty for you and the students noticed.Walk in slowly. They are all watching, and so am I.Luz Barrientos Plead Lying · IcyYou said you could sail, and the sloop has a different opinion.She is thirty years old and she remembers every knot you got wrong.Come aboard and tell the truth to the mast.Sigrid Nyberg Plead Ignoring · LoudI won my first case in six months and you sent a thumbs-up!A thumbs-up! I wrote the closing at four in the morning!Try again. In words. With adjectives.Aaliyah Whitfield Plead Forgetting · SarcasticYou forgot to pick up the order, so the client ate air.I have a shop full of buns and a reputation for punctuality.Tell me, with a straight face, that this is not your fault.Hyun-ah Jung Plead Breaking · TearfulYou sat on my costume trunk, and something in it cracked.It was the tiara. It was Azucena's tiara.Say sorry to the tiara first. Then to me.Ottavia Greco Plead Lateness · IcyThe demonstration was at ten, and it is now a quarter past noon.The investors left, the robot stood on one leg and I was alone.Account for every minute. I will be timing you.Fatima Bensaid Plead Rudeness · LoudYou spoke to my drivers like furniture, and they told me.Twelve coaches and twelve people, and they all have names.Learn them. Say them aloud. Then we will talk.Joanna Pruszynski Plead Breaking · SarcasticYou cut a wire you were told not to cut, a red one, with a label.The label said do not cut, in three languages.I admire the confidence. I do not admire the outage.Dagmar Keller Plead Forgetting · LoudYou forgot to call in, and there was dead air for ninety seconds!I filled it with traffic reports and my own despair.Say something live. Now. On the record.Winnie Chaudhry Plead Rudeness · TearfulYou told my customer the roses were wilting, in front of her.She cried, and so did I, behind the till.Help me make a bouquet that fixes it. Slowly, and with care.Esperanza Lozano Plead Rudeness · SarcasticYou told my runners their pace was charming. Charming!I have run a hundred races and I do not do charming.Apologise to the whole club, starting with the slowest.Linnea Vogt Plead