Hello my foodies!!
After a long absence, i'm back again!
I was really busy those last couple of months, with a video untitled :
"She threw my leather jacket away!!"
It's my first story time,
i will try to be the more synthetic as possible,
because most of the time, when i tell a story, it's like... long!
So : the video will be splitted in 2 parts
The first part would be about the story in itself
and in the second part, 2 friends of mine, Adriana and Pauline would join the party!
Together we will talk about things my "friend" told me after the event.
Shall we start!
It happened during the June, 10th vegan place, if i'm not mistaken...
That day, there was a demonstration for the slaughterhouses to be closed.
Normaly, if i had a nice day, i should have made a vlog about that day.
But that's not what happened. I had to meet a friend with her husband.
Let's call this girlfriend... Nathalie!
Her husband... Today, we will call him Thomas!!! He will be called Thomas!(I'm Laughing because i had Adriana behind
the camera who was laughing like crazy hearing the name 'Thomas', it reminded her someone)
So, Thomas and Nathalie are.. huum... i mean "were" vegan friends of mine.
who were (are) eating gluten free.
Because i wanted to bake them a gluten free cake, i was late.
After the vegan place, i had to meet my friend, Adriana to her place around 8:pm.
Will preparing, i thought "you might be cold tonight, so grab something to cover you up".
While i was late, i thought "what would you wear knowing tonight, you gonna be cold?"
Then, i grab my leather jacket thinking
"you are goint to the Vegan Place (VP), will it be ok if you wear a jacket made out of leather?"
Then i thought "you bought it a long time ago, it doesn't matter, plus, you're late, so leave!"
(I bought this jacket before being vegan, and as a vegan i chose to keep it and to continue wearing it)
So, i'm in the VP, looking for a friend i had to meet. Let's call him...
wow..I was about to give his really name..
Let's call him Julien, hoping i won't forget that i chose this name.
So, i am with Julien and i look for my other friend in the VP.
She told me she had a stand espacially for that day.
Finally, i found the couple, i say hello, ect.
As we (Julien and I) had to go to the demonstration first and she had to stay to the stand,
i remembered that i had with me all the things (like camera and so on)with me for Adriana's meet up.
So i ask her if she could keep my stuff in the stand. She gave me her agreement, i came i the stand and let my stuffs and leave.
Now, i am back with Julien. I am wearing my jacket.
That day was really, really hot. Like 30/35 degrees or something, i don't remember
Anyway, the sun was burning like crazy.
So, i go back to the stand, put my jacket on the top of the stuffs i let and leave.
We go to the demonstration, everything goes as it has to be and we come back.
I leave Julien and i join Nathalie and we talk a little bit.
She was really busy with her stand so i let her be and turn to her husband.
Lily : How did we say we would come him? Adriana : Thomas! Lily : Thomas, thanks!
At least, someone is following the story... So Thomas!
We talk for a while, Thomas leaves and his sister... how can we call his sister..???
Samantha!!
So she's gonna be named "Samantha" and i hope i won't forget her name...
So, i am talking with Samantha, and at a certain point, i am thursty. I ask her if she agrees to go with me to Monoprix (supermarket)
to buy some water.
We went and came back at 6 pm.
For that VP, there was a ice cream truck,
Samantha asks me if we can go there to buy an ice cream. I agree, but i tell her as a reminder that the queue is really long.
Samanthan replies "don't worry, Nathalie did it earlier and she only waited a quarter, let's go"
So we go and start queueing. 6pm. 6:15pm. 6:25pm.6:30pm
6:45pm : we did not move a lot!
If i am not mistaken, the VP had to finish at 7:00pm
and at that time, we were still queueing.
I started to worry. I was checking time to time if my friend was still on the spot of the stand.
When we were served, it was 7:30pm
The ice cream was really tasty, but i will never wait that much of a time for an ice cream.
At first, i only wanted to accompany Samatha. I did not want to buy anything (i'm not used too).
But after some time, you think "at least, i will wait for something"
Anyway, we are with Nathalie again chit chatting.
We have fun, we laugh, talk and everything
Then she asks (her husband Thomas was back)
"was the leather jacket yours?"
i reply "yes, it was. why?"
"Because....Sarah threw it away"
So, Sarah holds a vegan pastry shop in Paris and she had that day a stand in the VP.
Sarah was sharing her stand with Nathalie for the VP.
Indeed, "Sarah" is not the real name of the person who holds the pastry shop.
I look at her, thinking she was joking.
I really thought it was a joke. So i ask her "what are you talking about?"
Then she replies "i am really serious. I promise you on the life of my cats...
(the most important things in the world for Nathalie, indeed)
your jacket was really thrown away"
I had a bug.
When i understood that my jacket was really gone,
I...Let's say that i lost it.
I stopped being polite.
Nathalie started to find excuses to Sarah. Like "if i were her, i would have done the same"
"We asked to a lot of people whose jacket it was but we couldn't find the owner"
"Plus, it's a vegan place.. coming with a jacket made out of leather is not a good idea"
I replied "i don't understand... i mean.. it's my jacket..."
"why would you throw a jacket away with excuses like : it was on the floor, or whatever?"
She was giving me every kind of excuses possible to justify that act.
But I couldn't understand how someone could threw someone else's clothe.
The main argument for her was the fact that the jacket was made out of leather, so with animal skin.
So that it was no one's property.
She even replied when i asked her :
"Let's admit that 'it is no one's property' can you explain me what the animal cause would gain after what Sarah did?"
The explanation was... I mean, what she replied was :
"That's true. You're right. I could have buried it and made a prayer for it"
To be honest with you, at first, i really thought that the one who threw my jacket away was Sarah.
That Nathalie did not want to have a discussion nor to listen to what i was saying.
So "we can't throw people's clothe like that!"
I thought to myself "it's ok. Do not make a scandal for that. Too bad.
When i left the VP, i was really cold.
Adriana knows in which state of mind i was when i came to her appartment.
Anyway, she may tell you that by herself.
I spent the weekend in a certain kind of spirit, and on Monday, i thought :
"As Sarah threw my jacket away, i think that telling her it was mine would be a good thing to do"
Maybe there was a trouble in a certain way, because I don't know what reason someone would have
to think that it was ok for him/her to throw someone else's clothes.
So i go on Fb to talk with Nathalie to whom i ask Sarah's contact.
(Knowing i knew the shop in which she was working in, i could have contact her directly, i only wanted be polite to Nathalie)
As a response, i had a huge mail.... like.. really huge.
I have known her for 3 years and in that e-mail, she resumed 3 years of reproaches.
We will talk about them in the second part of the video.
It was the first time i heard about those "reproaches", still, i tried to be as polite and caring as possible.
The end of her message was something like "either you make excuses for daring coming to the VP with THAT jacket
PLUS letting THAT horrible jacket in MY stand and i will think if you worth my interest
or you don't and i won't ever loose my time with someone like you.
oh non! she also added "i won't ever loose my time... and talk with Thomas if you want a reparation."
I give her my reply and a waited a bit. I don't like stories implying boyfriend, husband or things like that.
To me, it's the best way to have problems you were not looking for.
She saw my message but after 24h, she still did not give me a reply, so, as she asked, i looked for Thomas to have a talk.
He seemed quite annoyed and he really wanted to give me his point of view regarding of the event.
He was also trying to stay as impartial as possible, knowing Nathalie was his wife.
The more we talked, the more i started to understand that it wasn't Sarah who threw the jacket away, but Nathalie.
That Nathalie wasn't brave enough to admit and face what she thought.
That's why her reponse was mainly about reproaches which had nothing to do with the jacket in itself
nor the event
I tried my best for things to solve the best way as possible
It did not work.
After a week of negociations with her husband,
i recieved a really unpleasant message.
This message put an end to our frienship.
I think that we can be vegan
and we can have the same objectif but not the same way to achieve it.
Plus, we don't need to be in a veganism of the "one-track thinking"
If we are not able to agree on something as vegan, or not vegan
fair enough, but we don't need to be violent with each other.
Espacially when we call ourselves "friend(s)"
At the end, i had to block her from my facebook account.
I have trouble managing (needless) violence.
I really have trouble to deal with agressiveness, so i block and delete her account from my facebook.
So, that was my story time.
It was the first time i was facing a friend who did not understand what i felt/was saying
and who wasn't even trying to understand my point of view.
I can understand if someone doesn't want to wear clothes made out of animal skin even if s/he bought it a long time ago
because s/he is now vegan and able to distance from that clothe. But that the person finds the excuse of veganism
enough valuable to throw someone's stuff, no, i can't.
So, that's all for today
I don't know when i will be able to launch the second part, but i know it will be interesting.
So stay tunned for the upcoming video.
And usual : drink a lot of water, eat a lot of vegetables
but first and foremost : keep smiling :)
Deuces!
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