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In this next story, I am going to talk about a time when I really misread a situation. I was out in the local town with a couple of mates. I would have been about seven years into my burn journey, probably in my late teens/early twenties.
I was not having a great time to be honest; people had been staring at me and making comments about my scars during the course of the evening. I hadn’t been out in my local town for a while, I didn’t feel comfortable in the clothes I was wearing, my hair wasn’t right, you know those nights that you get but as I have said, on top of that, a few people had made comments towards me and there had been quite a few stares. I was explaining this to a friend afterwards and she totally got it, she said that she had felt like that on a night out, just because she hadn’t put any earrings in.
Anyway, we were in this bar and I thought a girl sitting not too far away was staring at me, the next thing I knew, I was standing up in the bar shouting at her: “Yeah, ok, I’ve been burned, so what”? I got upset and one of my friends came to the ladies with me.
My friend suggested that I go and speak to the girl and I agreed. I wanted to apologise, I felt terrible. I spoke to the girl, explained what had been happening that night regarding the comments and stares, and explained that I had thought she was staring at me…of course, she hadn’t been. She was so lovely about it all, I mean, she didn’t need to be after the way I had just treated her.
The night didn’t really get any better and I decided to write it off.
So here is an example where I got it totally wrong, I should have taken it out on those who were actually staring and making comments to me…lol.
I put this one down to experience; we all get things wrong now and again I suppose.