To have a nemesis

[bewilderedinkent]

Am I the only grown woman to have a nemesis? Perhaps an extreme way of putting it, but the person in question just irks me in every possible way. She's a queen bee as well as a CF who somehow has everyone running around after her doing anything and everything for her. She comes out with some amazingly insensitive things at times with very little self awareness but passes it off with a smile.

I am aware that it's teenage and petty to feel this way and of course would never do anything about it (apart from quietly seethe). It all does remind me of being back at school. I never have a witty come back at the ready for the sly digs, though I have grown a backbone and said no to the CF requests lately. Please make me feel better and tell me I'm not the only one to quietly harbour contempt for a nemesis.

I had a nemesis once. We never even knew each other but we’d take the same route to work. She would be at the same bus stop everyday. She would get off at the same stop, rush to the tube and get off at the same stop. We got into this weird thing where we were clearly in a race when we’d walk really fast to be the first one to the tube station etc almost doing that weird run walking that used to be in the Olympics. She looked like a stupid mouse. I could tell she despised me. God I hated her.

I used to bitch about her to DH ‘that mouse woman was trying to beat me again, shes so fucking annoying!’. It got to a point when he’d ask if I’d seen mouse woman. Thank fuck I eventually moved. I know the whole thing was insane but she increased my blood pressure!