Six Word Memoirs on Life Stories

Wench says,

Not when the person taking it personally is determined to find offence where none exists. When my son was born, I put a sign on the door asking visits to be brief, voices to be quiet and children's hands to be washed. A few families from church had mentioned 'stopping by' and I didn't have a lot of energy. My mother in law was the first to visit. She read the sign, decided that it was my passive way of saying I didn't want her there, and months and several drunken calls and enails later, still believes this. Some people are just trying to be offended.

Jujeebal says,

I agree. I wrote this out of frustration and anger. My partner, who has been working in a school district for over 20 years finally got the nerve to ask the head Human Resources if she could add me to her health insurance (we've been together for 22 yrs). The head of Human Resources said "we don't do that because we don't have to." My partner then said, this School District policies are inclusive and non-discriminatory and that is what we teach the students. The Human Resource person said "oh, please don't take it personally, there is just no law saying that we have to offer it, so we don't." I just couldn't figure out how to summarize in six words what transpired between my partner and the Human Resource employee. The above six was the best I could do. I pay over $800 a month for not very good health insurance because I am self-employed. It's infuriating.