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lily wrote:
......I refuse to be told my spirit is in any way the same as that woman in Brisbane who went round the supermarkets sticking needles into strawberries....
I remember that happening! There were supermarkets here in NZ who pulled
all the Australian fruit from the shelves
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yes, all the strawberries went off the shelves - just so much fun for the strawberry farmers.
and then as the story unfolded, she was caught, and there was no reason for her actions - no grudge with either supermarket/s, farmer/s or the fruit itself. It was just for her personal malicious pleasure pure and simple.
Schadenfreude. I just been thinking about it, this idea that people laugh at other's misfortune, the man slips on the banana peel and the onlookers laugh. tbh, in reality if I saw someone slip on a banana peel my response is more likely to be sympathetic distress than laughing. but yes my ex would be having a good old titter behind his handkerchief.