We found out what blocked the drains to make the pub and other places flood....some smart cookie from the water company left a screwdriver down the manhole!!!! Amazing such a little thing can do so much damage!
It's been a BIT of a quiet weekend. I went over to little Blah on Friday night to stay with Claire. I also took Hattie with me and met up with Bud (remember him? One of the gang that was my FB for a little bit a couple of years ago). It's was Bud's dad's birthday so decided to hang at the pub there to have a drink with him.
Hattie brought up the subject AGAIN of what happened a couple of weeks ago, after saying she was putting it to rest. She just kept going on and on, and burst into tears on me again (at this point, Claire and Bud took off for a bit to get away from her drivel). She just can't let anything go. I told her I only spoke to her about it because I could see her spiralling out of control again, and wanted to help. She told me not to try and help again unless she asks for it, because any sort of criticism she takes totally to heart and will do the opposite of what you say. I told her I never will.
I had also offered to download all her photos off of her camera for her, as she doesn't have a computer, and order prints. I absolutely love doing this stuff, tweeking with photos in the live gallery. I'm becoming a bit of a photography freek like my mum. When I first offered this to her on Monday, she was up for it. I then invited her to come around on the Tuesday night but she didn't show. When I saw her in the Pub Friday, she borrowed my car to do something at home to save her walking there and back, and I told her to bring her camera back with her. When she returned, she didn't have the camera, saying she forgot. I told her I would take my laptop to Claire's, she takes her camera, and I would do it while we were there.
In the pub on Friday night, when she's rehashing again, she also said the reason she hadn't given me the camera as yet, was because she didn't trust me with what I would do with the photos!!! Now these are just photos of her holidays and friends. There may be one or two taken with her and her friend topless, but that's it. She's so paranoid, that she doesn't trust anybody. All I was doing was being a bloody good friend! I told her that after I downloaded them, not wiping them from her camera, I would then burn them on disc for her and once I had ordered the photos, I would delete them off my hardrive. After all, I don't want them!!! She said that would be fine and thanked me for being understanding.
When we got back in from the pub, I downloaded them and she sat there while I tweeked them. She was really impressed with what I did and thoroughly enjoyed it and thanked me. So into the early hours of the morning we were karaoking and Hattie was getting incredibly drunk, then she brings out some poppers and starts sniffing that, getting off her face, then threw up in the kitchen. Claire went mad! She doesn't mind if anyone gets sick at her place as long as they do it in the toilet or outside!! I quickly made an exit back to the lounge room, because if I even smell sick, I'd wanna throw up myself. Hattie then went and crashed upstairs and Claire and Bud had a moan at me about her. Claire was losing patience with her. She had Hattie going on to her about not trusting me with the photos, and it really pissed Claire off, because she knows I was just offering to help her get them developed. But Claire and Bud have seen how she treats me and others that upset her, and say nothing to keep the peace.
The next morning, I left Claire's to go to work. Hattie was supposed to get a lift back with me, but was playing the wii with Bud and decided to stay. I saw Claire wasn't happy, but didn't say anything, and I wasn't going to tell Hattie I think she should leave! Claire was supposed to come around to mine after I finished work, as I had the boys. I was texting her to see where she was but she ended up going out with Hattie and Bud to the Cock pub. She text to say Hattie was doing her head in and I said to leave her, but she didn't.
Claire popped in this afternoon. I asked how the night went, and she said next time she wouldn't let Hattie or Bud convince her to go out with them when all she wanted to do was come round to mine and play games. Claire said she just wanted Hattie to leave with me but was afraid to ask her to in case she got upset. For the rest of the day, Hattie was just up really high one minute, burst into tears the next, then wanting to beat somebody up. Bud was also wankered by the time they went into town and she didn't enjoy it at all. I'm glad I wasn't there, because I have trouble shutting my mouth like the others.
I told Claire I reckon Hattie would be back on barwatch again by the time I get back from all my holidays in April....she agreed.
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