today i shall be ranting about cowards.

coward no 1
i recently did a gig in a school and it was a total disaster. the lady was not very precise in her instructions in the first place and actually gave me wrong information about what she wanted me to do. Anyway, I arrived there and it was shit. She wasn't being very helpful and I just wished for the day to end as quickly as possible and ideally disappear from my mind altogether.

She gave me a heque on the day. I banked it the next day. Now this was about a week ago. Today I get a letter telling me that the school had stopped the payment. Now there are a few things to be said about this. Firstly: they hired me they have to pay. Secondly: if they decided for any reason that they didn't like what I was doing, fair enough, but tell me so and don't let me bank the frigging cheque, which then gets taken out of my account again, which means that my account was temporarily in debt (which I have to pay for) and hope the whole thing will just go away. Not even a letter, phone call. Just stopped the payment. I travelled for ages to get to that gig, slept in the car and they do not even have the decency of a letter. I am totally shocked and not really sure how to react to the whole thing. I've written another letter, telling them about this and hoping the whole thing is just an unfortunate mistake (yeah, likely!!). I hate dealing with things like this.

Coward No 2
He is in a relationship and constantly goes off with other girls. Se doesn't seem to have a clue about it (or at least knows nothing definite), but EVERYONE else knows. Now,, if that would be me I'd like to know please that my partner is shagging around and give him a damn good hiding. But nobody is telling her, because we all feel a bit akward about the whole thing. I really think she ought to know, but just telling her would be useless, cos he would just deny and she'd believe him etc. blabla. I really don't know what to do with this. I don't know her that well and have no idea how she'd react. But the whole situation is just horrible.

Why are people so horrible to each other on purpose???