The Loner (standard:humor, 151 words)
Author: Sare	Added: Dec 02 2001	Views/Reads: 3389/1	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
There is always one who is ignored.

I feel so neglected.  I sit here alone, day after day.  People are
continually passing me by, never stopping to say hello, not even the 
ones who pass every day.  And at parties, when someone is standing 
nearby, they don’t give me a second glance, even when I am wearing my 
prettiest hat.  Even when someone will sit next to me on the sofa, they 
never pay me any attention.  They all act as though I can’t see them, 
as though I don’t know they’re there.  And the worst thing?  What makes 
me feel the worst?  That’s when someone sits down at my table, sits 
there and eats and talks to their friends, or their husband or wife or 
child, and completely ignores me.  What an insult!  How they wound me, 
these ignorant, insensitive morons! 

“Hey, why is that lamp flickering?” 

“I don’t know, somebody turn it off.” 

Finally, they noti---


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