Drama, Drama, Drama

Drama exists in many different forms. There's the drama you find in books and on tv, mostly fictional with a little bit of truth thrown in once in awhile. Then there's the drama at the world scale, wars, abuse, exploitation, etc. But the drama that really gets to you is the everyday little nitty gritty stuff. Take last night for example, two dramatic events both fairly close in location but two very different events. The first one, the larger scale one, 2 inmates escaped from the Warkworth Penitentiary and somehow managed to make there way over to Cobourg. This morning on my way to driving my sister to work we were stopped by police at a roadblock. We live near the lake and heard helicopters flying over our heads all night and all morning. In the effort to try and capture them a local cop was shot and killed. All this in 12 hours.. probably the most action that Cobourg has seen since the last major drug bust (which are rather frequent in the area).

The second drama was a little bit closer to me, 3 of my friends are in the middle of a feud, which of course doesn't mean that just the 3 people are affected.. oh no.. now I'm in the middle of it, because I refuse to take sides. So last night I went out with one friend only to be called a bunch of my other friends who wanted to go dancing. Of course, I had to make a decision of which friends to hang out with for the evening. Of course I chose dancing.. why?? because I was sick of sitting in a bar with my friend and her 2 cousins listening to them complaining about work all night, and about this so called "feud". Especially since the bar was filled with dirty old men and I was sick of the stares. Before I left however, I had to way the potential consequences of my actions. I knew that if I left, Friend A would be mad because I left her to hang out with Friends B,C etc. But if I stayed then I'd miss out on having fun and Friends B,C etc would be disappointed. Honestly people.. grow up.. fights shouldn't become feuds where people refuse to talk to other people. I feel like I'm in high school again. GET A GRIP!!

In the end, I left my grumpy friend, her cousins and the dirty men to go have fun with a bunch of my other friends, laugh at drunk skanks and bad dancers with a good friend and all was well. Tonight I'm going to have a girls night where we're going to watch sappy movies and make fancy drinks.. where of course there will yet again be more drama, but at least the drama will be fictional and the actors can deal with it. Also I have something to look forward to. I'm leaving DramaVille (aka Cobourg) for a big city on Monday. I'm taking the train to Montreal to escape for a few days and visit my darling exroomate Kate in her new digs!! I'm counting down the hours!! By the way, I really don't think that the death of a cop and my friends feuds compare.. I was just trying to show the magnitude of drama and how it affects us.. It was an awful situation and my thoughts are with his family.