Trashy or Classy? Who are you?

I came across a situation the other day and I found myself debating whether I should be “trashy” or “classy” in the way that I handled it. (I will try to not confuse you, but I am leaving out the specifics as to not offend)

So the story goes….

I was talking with an acquaintance (we’ll call them “Boots”, yes it’s sad Dora characters are the first that come to mind) the other day about a situation. Boots attempted to make a funny joke about the situation that wasn’t really joke friendly, so it fell flat. I ignored the lame attempt and continued on. Well it kept happening! Boots kept trying to make jokes throughout the conversation, but they became lamer and hard to ignore. This continued off and on for several hours, as the conversation would end and then later Boots would bring it back up. Now, it’s not like this situation was so serious and maybe with a different delivery some of the jokes could have been funny, but they just weren’t. Maybe it’s that I just don’t find Boots to be a funny person, but as the topic kept getting revisited, it seemed as though the attempt at jokes were coming at the expense of others. So now I am annoyed and over hearing about it, which is when I began my internal debate.

I could…..

A) Be Classy! I usually prefer to be classy. I am not one to be rude and confrontational about things. I am more of a just kind of walk away and not acknowledge kind of person, but clearly my efforts were not effective. You would think Boots would get it when I didn’t respond to the “jokes”, but maybe Boots isn’t the brightest monkey in the zoo!  

Or

B) Be Trashy! And by Trashy I mean Bitchy, but hey it flowed better with Classy! I really wanted to say “hey, maybe if you spent as much time on your life as you do trying to be funny you wouldn’t be a complete train wreck.” I mean seriously, if someone doesn’t react or respond the first few times, GIVE UP ALREADY!!! I just have a serious thing against people who are always negative, rude and hateful. That’s the problem with option B, if I go the “trashy” route, then I am no better. But man, sometimes you really just want to though, you know!

So what do you do? Are you a trashy or classy kind of girl?