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May 16th, 2017 | by Trae Dorn
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  1. mitamaking
    mitamaking
    May 16, 2017 at 12:13 am | # | Reply

    It’s not really defended Terrance as saying Sarah is just as much if not more of an ass at times.

    Having known “Sarahs” working cons, I really do not blame Terrance for wanting to just ignore her.

  2. E. Bernhard Warg
    E. Bernhard Warg
    May 16, 2017 at 1:16 am | # | Reply

    Every time I think Sarah is being unfair to Terrence, he opens his mouth.

  3. Shadow
    Shadow
    May 16, 2017 at 4:00 am | # | Reply

    I’m beginning to suspect the trouble between these two is going to come to a head at the expense of the Borkcon staff… In my experience, these little squabbles can very easily become surprise landmines.

  4. Langland
    Langland
    May 16, 2017 at 5:40 am | # | Reply

    Terrence just can’t learn to shut up and be nice apparently. I know I used to say offensive things but I’d at least not say this kind of crap.

    • Abdiel
      Abdiel
      May 17, 2017 at 8:26 am | # | Reply

      Err, neither can Sarah? See all the “Terrence/Sarah is just being a jerk.” stuff on this arc, when really all I can see is Terrence starting crap by being an idiot, and Sarah nurturing, watering, cuddling, and feeding the resulting grudge until it’s 50′ tall and taking over cities.
      Sure, Terrence is a socially retarded jackass, but Sarah is pretty much all about never, ever, EVER letting one single thing go. She also seems to assume malice long before the thought of lack of competence enters her mind.
      In short – they’re both being jackholes – just for different reasons. There’s no “this one’s wrong, that one’s right” here. They both own stock in gas stations and they’re chucking it all over the fire in alternately.

      * Sure, Sarah said something nice. If I were Terrence, I’d be suspicious as hell too! Considering that makes her about 1/250… yeah that doesn’t make it all cool.

      • Viktor
        Viktor
        May 17, 2017 at 9:31 am | # | Reply

        See, the problem there is that you’re putting “insults someone repeatedly and refer to them as ‘it’ within 5 minutes of meeting them” as on the same level as “don’t forgive someone for insulting you repeatedly”. Sarah opened by being friendly and had to be pushed into being rude, Terrance opened by being rude. Should Sarah have given him another chance earlier? Certainly. But she did give him another chance now, and Terrance still managed to be an ass in response.

        • Kat
          Kat
          May 17, 2017 at 6:46 pm | # | Reply

          And the thing is, I can understand that Sarah wouldn’t be inclined to be friendly after he insulted her when they first met. Even if she wants to insult him, I can understand that, especially if he was rude continuously in subsequent interactions.
          But see, the issue HERE is, yes, Terrence was an ass in response to Sarah being nice now. BUT, recall that Sarah started out their interactions for the day with Sarah repeatedly telling him that she absolutely loathed him and hated the idea of working with him, and that pretty much after the day was over she was going to not make an effort to be civil with him. All while he repeatedly tried to deny any mutuality to the hatred and just wanted to get to work on the garage sale. So even if Sarah was trying to be nice NOW, in this particular case I think she sort of shot herself in the foot earlier with her grandiose declaration of hatred for him.
          Plus, as Scrappy was so kind to point out earlier, every conversation they have had since the ill-fated first meeting where it all began seems to have begun with Sarah referring to Terrence as garbage in some form. So I can sort of see Terrence having already begun his journey to this point beforehand.

          • Trae Dorn
            Trae Dorn
            May 19, 2017 at 8:22 pm | #

            From Sarah’s point of view, she started the day trying to ask Terrence if they could be civil, and he told her she was unimportant,

            When the whole reason she’s mad is because he wouldn’t treat her like a person.

            Just something to consider.

  5. Glenn
    Glenn
    May 18, 2017 at 1:26 pm | # | Reply

    If the question is, is Terrence or Sarah being a jerk, the answer is yes.

    • Kat
      Kat
      May 19, 2017 at 7:56 pm | # | Reply

      A very fair response to this whole situation, thank you.

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