someone was wrong 5+ years ago about something frivolous and it still bothers me
It was winter and it was extremely cold and my lips were cold as hell and had been cracked and bleeding, as they did every year, and I decided I was finally going to do something about it
I got some chapstick and it helped A LOT
one of my coworkers saw me putting it on
'Does it help?' he asked. 'My lips hurt every winter.'
someone was wrong 5+ years ago about something frivolous and it still bothers me
'It helps me a lot,' I said.
Another coworker turned around. 'It doesn't help,' she informed him, completely incorrectly. 'I never use it and my lips are never cracked,' she said, completely irrelevantly. 'Chapstick MAKES your lips cracked. It's a scam.'
'It is?' said the first coworker. 'Wow, I shouldn't use it!'
someone was wrong 5+ years ago about something frivolous and it still bothers me
'Look,' I said. 'I never used chapstick in my life, and my lips were cracked and bleeding all the time. Now I'm using it and it's a lot better. I have direct experience of it working and not using it still leaving me with cracked lips.'
Second coworker made a sort of haughty snort. 'I'm right. It's a scam. Trust me!'
someone was wrong 5+ years ago about something frivolous and it still bothers me
First coworker, 'I won't use it, don't worry.'
And that's the story. I never got any closure. It comes back to me every now and then and annoys me all over again.
