So, as the title suggests, I spend a lot of time with this individual. As such, I understand that we are, at some point, bound to have a spat. Still, when it happened today, I was left pretty floored by it.

We work at a shoe store. Sometimes when looking for shoes in the stock room we take the display from the floor; “singles,” part of the job is to put them back. She left a shoe there, I picked it up and (very obviously jokingly) said “forgetting something?” We joke around with each other, “razzing” one and other like this constantly, it’s always in good nature. So imagine my surprise when she turned around and spat something along the lines of “don’t even give me attitude for that, ____, because you’re the worst one for it.” And stormed off. A. I am most certainly not the worst one for it, and she should be the last one saying I am. B. What the fuck?

So I’m generally pretty timid, especially with her, but that left my jaw hanging to the floor. So I picked up the single, followed her out, slapped it on the shelf, said “FYI, I was joking” and walked away. She then followed me back and said “don’t take that attitude with me” in the bitchiest voice; she is a shift lead and I am an associate but I thought it was so fucked to flex on me like that as we should be friends before anything else.

After that we ignored each other for a bit, until I asked her if she was mad at me and she said “no not at all,” but continued to ignore me. I later bought her a cookie on my lunch break and things were pretty normal for the rest of the shift.

I have some other issues with the living situation which I’ve never bought up because I didn’t really mind them, they’re just unfair, but depending on how the talk goes when she gets home after her shift I may just unload it all in one big surprise package.