Meh.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
This story makes me sad. You are fidgiting and fighting against things that truthfully bother you, but might well be ignored by others. The best advice to you might be to just ignore it, and get on with your work- but to you the discomfort is real, and cannot be ignored.

When I realize that I would defend your right to fidgit, I am ashamed that I did not speak up to defend Paigow, albeit from my position low on the totem pole.

Surely her discomfort, while best ignored, was real.

I'm not sure whether the point of your post is that Paigow's discomfort, while seemingly trivial to someone non-Paigow, is something that you should have recognized and backed her up on. Or that Paigow's discomfort, however real, was something that was best for you to ignore. Or whether there was any point. Maybe it will come later.