A rubber band can hold together a big bunch of paper money but if it’s stretched far enough it snaps and breaks.
How far can you push someone until he or she snaps and is not responsible for their action?
An unfortunate situation saw me go back to live with my dad and mum.
my mom is a retired teacher and by then she had three months to go to her retirement and she was excited about starting a retailing shop that would sell groceries among other things and every morning the three of us would have breakfast before she left for school. She would tell my dad and I about all those plans she had for her shop and my dad would take every opportunity to water down her ideas and I could see my mum hurriedly finish her breakfast and leave.
This became the daily routine until slowly my mum just stopped talking about it and my dad would bring it up to provoke her until I personally stopped having breakfast with them but the saddest part is that once my mum finally retired she abandoned all her plans to start the shop, till today it remains just a buried dream.
Fortunes keep changing and thanks to God I managed to move out and get a job and for a while it was bliss and then a new colleague related to my boss came into our office and unfortunately I had to share space with him in the same office and since he could get away with anything, he started watching cartoon with a high volume just behind my desk.
To avoid rocking the boat, I would wear headphones but then my boss told me that I could not use them in his office so I switched to earplugs when he was not in the office I was very comfortable.
So my colleague saw that I would remove the earplugs when the boss came in and he took that opportunity to put the volume higher.
This went on for a few months and I guess that is where my breaking point reached. On the material day before 9 am the cartoon was loud and his laughter louder so I put on my earplugs and then the unfortunate happened, the boss came back to the office.
Until today, I have no idea how I was able to just turn around and switched off his computer.
And what is even more amazing is the shock that almost made him fall off his chair. Let’s just say the cartoons are not watched during working hours anymore and to have a plan B I found out how to remote control his computer now I can just switch it off from the comfort of my desk top.
How far have you been pushed?
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