That's so high school...

You know that when people constantly talk behind others' back with you....
that most likely...
they are talking behind your back as well.

Right?

I know this.
Have known it since high school.

Then, why am I so hurt when I overhear it?

I've been trying to decipher that all afternoon.

All I can think of, though, is that old story.....

A man started to climb a high, steep mountain when a snake asked the man to carry him along.
"But you're a snake," the man said.
The snake smiled. "Don't worry. I won't bite you."
After days of arduous climbing, the man reached the mountain summit, whereupon the poisonous snake bit him.
As he lay dying, the man cried out, "You said you wouldn't bite me!"
His reptilian hitchhiker looked at him and said,
"You knew I was a snake when you picked me up."

I know what sort of people these are, yet.... I guess I deceived myself that since we laugh together, seem to connect and talk, that they wouldn't do it to me.

I guess I never want to believe that women... all older than 30... could be so catty.
I wanted to believe they're all so over that whole high school thing. Or at least have the good taste to wait until I'm not around to accidentally overhear.

And yet....

I knew what they were.

Shame on me.