Teaming-up

Can you say that I'm partly responsible for something I had no control over? something that was unpredictable? Sure, you can argue that we were collectively responsible for making R. cry, but who knew that would happen? We tease one another a lot, it was the starting point of our group, the foundation that we built our relationship on. Jokes are something to laugh about, not something to take personally. Thus it perplexes me why R. would unravel emotionally when we said she became meaner after the second days of work. Well, sure that was a mean thing to say -- but the truth is everyone became mean and she was the nicest one of us all. She was tempered, religious, innocent . . . That's probably the reason she took it so hard. She got it into her head that we as a group secretly furbished a terrible reputation for her. She believed that our jokes were no longer jokes but discreet cries for R. to stop being such a bully. And that's why she broke. That's why she cried. And that's why I filled her mug with strawberry flavored hi-chew. Get well dear.