ORIGINAL: atlasman
ORIGINAL: GregH
You're exactly right. This is the snowball effect I wrote about earlier.
My only point was that the 2 guys discussing it could have been totally innocent bystanders..........(or not)...........but many people would label them "jealous"...........when in fact the truth could be totally different.
They could have been 2 thirsty bank robbers too.
As far as my previous example, those are all the details I knew about. It mattered not to me because I knew it was a lie. It wasn't worth my time to dig for more details.
Perhaps it meant more to you then you realize since you still carry that memory with you.
A lot of strange occurances stick in my memory, I don't investigate them all, down to the last detail. Just the ones that are important to me.
How about the guy at my work that kept on me for three years, telling me that one of the deer I shot, should have been his sons deer? I had a pic of the deer in the inside lid of my toolbox at work. He'd come in the shop when I was working, stare at the pic, then tell me that that deer should have been his sons? After 3 years!!! I said, dude, that deer is on my wall, all the wouldas, couldas and shoulsas ain't going to change that fact. He walked out telling me that he was going to tell an adjacent landowner that I was illegally hunting his land at night. That guy was very lucky that we were work![:@]
I call that jealousy.
Is he jealous of you..............or does he just not like you?? Hard to tell from that story.
Supposedly, his son missed the deer a week or 2 before I shot it. Believe me, it was all about the deer. He was jealous that I got the deer and his son didn't.