[DeusXM]

This story doesn't really have a point to it, but I thought I'd tell it anyway...

So, anyway, I'm in quite a posh restaurant for a friend's birthday. Food comes along, so I get out the ol' Humapen for my jab. It's then that a rather large middle-aged woman sitting with her family makes a comment, along the usual lines of 'Gasp! That's disgusting.'

Normally I'd ignore this sort of thing, but the room's kinda gone silent, so I decide to REALLY stick my oar because I'm phenomenally pissed off now.

"Well, excuuuuuuse me!" I say, "I didn't exactly choose to be diabetic."

"Do you really have to do THAT in public though?"she cries, "Can't you do it some other time, out of the way?"

"Oh I'm sorry, I'll just go without my shot and pass out here shall I? I'm so sorry that a medical condition that I didn't ask for has managed to incovenience you. Personally I find it very convenient that I can't eat without injecting"

Everyone in the restaurant's now looking, and the woman's rather aware that she's starting to lose this little fight. She's still got her last ace up her sleeve though, cuz she'll be ****ed if she's going to be shown up to be a prejudiced, inconsiderate moron:

"Well, why can't you go into the toilets and do it there then, if it HAS to be that important?" she says, her tone indicating that somehow I'm exagerating the problems caused by an inability to regulate blood sugar.

"Oh yes, because of course, toilets are a wonderfully sanitary environment in which to administer medical treatment. I'm sure people as a matter of course have operations in the men's room all the time. I'd love some secondary infection or something. So sorry that my trying to maintain my health is obviously highly offensive to you. Would you like me to go die in a corner and therefore be less of an inconvenience for you? Or would you like me to take you to court over the Disability Descrimination Act 1985? Or perhaps you'd like to shut up and let me carry on with my meal and my life."

There's a stunned silence, and then the group of people in their late 20s in the table next to us start clapping. The woman goes red and deathly silent, and then everyone goes back to their meals.

Just thought I'd tell that story because I can't believe I was quite that forthright, and it also shows how there's a lot of ignorant people out there, but there's also plenty of good people out there too.