[DanaC]

Originally Posted by Daffodil

I honestly cannot see much wrong with Charlie. She seems pretty inoffensive to me. It is others misinterpreting what she says that is the problem. She is just very, very naive and has been surrounded by 'nice' people all her life. Unfortunately the big wide world is full of nasty people and 'evil'.

What she started to say to Hazel, and more importantly what she thought in order to start to say it, was deeply offensive to the person she was talking to. The fact that she stopped herself halfway doesn't make it less hurtful. It's the fact that she thought it that must have hurt like hell.

I'm no Hazel fan, but I was totally with her on that one.

The implication was clear: Charlie was afraid that her inadvertent drunken aggression was going to lead to her being removed from the house like Daley was. Because Daley's removal was preceded by BB talking to hazel about the incident. And because Hazel had indicated that she considered Charlie's behaviour to have been 'a little aggressive'. Effectively she had equated the two situations in her mind, implying that Daley's behaviour was as inadvertent and blameless as her own, and that Hazel's talk with BB was what led to him being kicked out.

As her friend, hazel had every right to feel very hurt by that implication. The fact that she changed her mind about it and decided that it wasn't really the same thing after all, in no way detracts from the hurt that she thought it at all, even for a moment.