I was excited when I saw that she had taken up backgammon and thought this might be my opportunity to finally break through her impenetrable shell. I didn’t know how to play at all, but I thought, Even better! Not only is it a game she likes, but she can show off how good she is by teaching me to play it. I marched up to her and expressed interest in the game. She looked bored. I said I didn’t know how to play and asked if it was difficult. She looked at me in utter disgust and said, “No, it figures you wouldn’t know how. You’ve always been a tad backwards.”I was surprised by such an open display of hostility. It had seemed an unspoken agreement that to keep peace on the set, all hatreds were to be expressed in a more covert, Victorian manner. Just coming right out and insulting people to their face seemed unusual, even for her. I decided to go with the possibility, however unlikely, that this was an attempt at humor. Who knows what this girl thought was a joke? Maybe “backwards”
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