Did you ever.....?

Did you ever have a fight with someone that seemed critically important and absolutely asinine at the same exact moment? Maybe it's just me, it certainly wouldn't be the first time I was shorted a few neurons.

It all started innocently enough. Doesn't all trouble start that way? Is it too much to ask the all Trouble come properly labeled? I mean, look, cigarettes warn you that smoking them will cause everything bad to happen to you, but people light up every day. Surely Trouble would stay in business just fine, even "in this slow economy" but at least we'd see it coming.

I digress. Oh yeah, see we were cleaning up the office which was the last main depository of miscellaneous crapola mixed with certain critical documents thus requiring us to hand sift the debris-- page by bloody page. Tedious would have been an improvement. But we were in spitting distance of done when for some reason we started to bicker. What was an almost playful tussle became an all out, no holds barred, go for the guts war. Of course this is a figurative description. No actual maiming took place except of course to feelings and pride.

When the battle was over and bodies were strewn in every direction all I could think was, did I win?

And if I did win, did I win?

Because no way in Hades am I gonna apologize unless I'm at least mostly sure that I won.

Ha! I bet you thought this was gonna be some sunny kiss and make up and everything is all better post, eh?

Don't you know me better than that yet?