Apparently, I AM a drama queen ...

I was in a car accident last week. I was on my way to my book group and this guy didn't stop quickly enough and slammed into me. The damage wasn't horrific, but I did get banged around a bit, and was very shaken up. Too shaken up to make sure that the info the guy gave me was real. That's right, he faked me out. He was being so nice, writing everything down for me, that I didn't think to take pictures with my phone. I just took his info and drove off. No police, nothing. Days later, my insurance company calls me back and lets me know that every piece of info he gave me was either fake, or incomplete and fake. Nice.

Anyway, I tell you this for a reason. I called a friend to tell her the bad news and commiserate, and in an attempt to make me laugh, she started listing all the things she'd learned not to do, based on all the stupid things I've either caused or had happen to me over the last five and a half years. Fortunately, I have a pretty decent sense of humor, and I did laugh. Some of it is actually pretty funny, when you take a step back and look at it. Things like taking out a balcony with a moving truck when I moved last time, or accidentally destroying my toilet, leaving me standing two inches deep in blue toilet water on the bathroom floor at two in the morning.

In the past, I have been accused of being a Drama Queen. I have denied said accusations vehemently. Drama Queens are horrible, selfish people whose entire lives revolve around them, to the exclusion of all else. Or so I thought. I've decided I have to embrace the fact that I am a Drama Queen. My life is too ridiculous to do anything else. Whether I acknowledge it or not, I am surrounded by drama on a fairly regular basis. Drama. I don't even generally create it, it just finds me. Sometimes it's my own, or sometimes it's a friend's that I have been sucked into. Or sometimes, it's a friend's that I have waded into, thinking I could help. Yeah, me, the Drama Queen, thinking I could help. Evidently I don't have enough drama on my own. I need to appropriate other people's drama.

Anyway, with all this drama that seems to follow me wherever I go, I've finally come to the realization that I'm just one of 'those people'. You know the ones. You all have at least one special person somewhere amongst your group of friends that always seems to have something happening to her or him. For my group of friends, I am that person. I'm not even going to try to be one of the normal friends anymore. Bring on the Drama. At this point, if it went away, I wouldn't know what to do anyway.

Let me close with this thought: Be kind to your drama-prone friend. And be glad it isn't you.