Feeling superior to my N

Two things made the scales fall from my eyes:

1. Politics
One thing that changed the way I felt about XN was after he'd joined the Labour party in the area where he moved to (after moving out of his parents' house at last). He went to meetings, agreed to help write a newsletter and took away a load of leaflets to deliver (he never did). He went along to a quiz night and a social night.

And a few months later he told me that he'd never voted.

Didn't see the point, he said.

I realised then that he's all 'mouth and no trousers', a pathetic creature.


2. His sudden purchase of a brand new wardrobe

After starting therapy (and then deciding he couldn't afford it after 3 sessions) he bought a load of new clothes and all from one shop.

He didn't even have an original look. He just bought about £1500 worth of clothes from this shop - probably their entire spring/summer collection (he's probably now onto their autumn/winter collection)!

I'd always thought he was well dressed and individual.

And then he started looking ridiculous. But someone in work told him he looked "dapper" and someone else said that they liked his stripey socks (which cost £15 a pair and he bought ten pairs of them in one go).

So it didn't matter what I (the old supply) thought! Someone in work said he looked dapper so he was happy.

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I thought he had become unoriginal, all style and no substance and he couldn't even be bothered to get his a$$ down to the polling station despite pontificating about politics at any opportunity to anyone who would listen.

It was all rather pathetic and it makes me feel superior to him. I don't need to go and buy an entire clothing range from a store to know who I am.

And I don't know all that much about politics but at least I bother to get down to the polling station once every 4 years!