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07-30-2006 04:49 PM

or, maybe some class?

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**cevor** · 07-30-2006 04:50 PM

or god forbid, both!

07-30-2006 04:52 PM

Oh, no, no you're asking too much there! :D

**cevor** · 07-30-2006 04:53 PM

always my demise

Space Cadet · 07-30-2006 05:17 PM

Ashamed I am in admitting, to my best forum friends furthermore, that I seem to be among the abovementioned public imbeciles we all despise so much. I'm not sure what causes the behavior, exactly, but something about being a solitary figure in a large crowd breeds inexplainable confusion and sinks me deep into a dazed and slack-jaw state of oblivion. I find it very difficult to make purchases and rarely understand what is said to or asked of me by anyone I'm unfamiliar with.

This one time, on a busy street in Columbus, a hobo on the wall said something under his breath while watching me pass. Kept walking, but as the interaction registered in my mind I absentmindedly turned around, stopped, and said "huh?" He whistled and said that something again, but this time I only heard the word "skirt," at which point I made a beeline to my grandpa. My brains, sense of logic, and ability to reason just go to mush.

People think I'm stupid because of this, and I am not stupid. Just socially incompetent, apparently. I'm trying really, really hard to change though. Spare me if we encounter?

:(

**cevor** · 07-30-2006 05:19 PM

for you FF, anything... :)

Comfortably9Numb · 07-30-2006 05:53 PM

whong Wrote:"Rude Self-Serving, Time Consuming Idiots Form Line Here"

one of the greatest idea ive ever heard!! But ya... i know where your comming form Whong....people like that suck
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artie_fufkin · 07-30-2006 06:34 PM

OH, MY! Yes, this is AGGRAVATING! I have noticed it's not specific to race, gender, religion, nationality, age, or anything else - but it seems that person chooses to get in line just before me! :)

I travel A LOT, so you can imagine my chagrin when the T'Giving holidays and Christmas holidays and summer and spring break roll around... People who don't travel often get in line and they seem SHOCKED that their airplane is leaving in 30 minutes, and they want everyone else to hurry up. Then when they get up to the security checkpoint, they wonder why they have to take off their shoes, then they set off the metal detector, then the TSA finds a lighter in their pocket, then upon close inspection the TSA finds a knife in their bac, then this idiot starts griping because it's EVERYONE ELSE'S FAULT they're going to miss their flight. I just want to yell, "CAVITY SEARCH ON AISLE 3!" This would give me a certain degree of grim satisfaction...

artie_fufkin · 07-30-2006 07:00 PM

FantasticFloyd Wrote:...This one time, on a busy street in Columbus, a hobo on the wall said something under his breath while watching me pass. Kept walking, but as the interaction registered in my mind I absentmindedly turned around, stopped, and said "huh?" He whistled and said that something again, but this time I only heard the word "skirt," at which point I made a beeline to my grandpa. My brains, sense of logic, and ability to reason just go to mush...

OMG, when I was 21, in the USMC, I went to visit the grandparents in Oakland. My great aunt lived in SF, so I took BART across the bay to see Chinatown and such (which I hadn't seen since I was about 4?). It was around lunchtime, and I was going to meet my auntie at about 4.

So there I was, thinking about all the stories I'd heard of gay guys there, and I didn't see them. OK, maybe a few, but they just weren't there. Just guys going to lunch together (always groups of 2-3) So I was walking around, and I noticed they were ALL AROUND me, just not wearing feather boas, wigs, spike heels, halter tops, and hot pants... THEY DRESSED LIKE THEY WERE STRAIGHT! What a shock! I had only ever seen gay guys who were FLAMBOYANT (or so I thought), so this was a culture shock for me.

But there was a "code word." One would say, "Dinnerrrr?" - and I would unconsciously look, then they'd ALL look and smile and - ugh! Freaked me out... It's never fun when this happens.

Oddly, I told my dad, and he said much the same thing happened to him in the '50s when he was in SF in his USMC uniform. When he realized that he wasn't being offered "JUST" a beer, he decided that wearing his uniform was actually attracting the attention. So that was why I was in my "civvies" that day; but they were still hitting on me. It only stands to reason - I was SO hot back then... :)

Anyway, and seriously, if you feel uncomfortable, DO ask your parents - they've almost surely had it happen to them. I am sure they can still identify, and can give some good advice. If you were my young'un, I'd tell you some other stories to let you know you're not alone, and your reaction isn't abnormal at all. The first time I heard "Dinnerrrrr?" - I didn't even know what he said, then it all happened in slow motion, and by the time I realized it, they were all looking at me, and I suddenly had to have - HAD to have - this confused, shocked, scared look on my face... Surely not as scary as a homeless guy who probably needs his "meds" pretty bad, but I know what you mean about the human nature of questions that scroll in your mind like the bottom right corner of The Terminator's vision:
"What did he just ask?"
"Was he talking to me?"
"What's going on?"
"Huh?"
...and all of these scroll by as you're turning your head, and - well, it's just icky when you realize what's going on.

You're normal. Anyone who says what you did was dumb has never been faced with this type of thing before.

Morglor9 · 07-30-2006 08:37 PM

I'd have to agree with whong's original post, people like that can drive a person to insanity. Angry

I work at a grocery store, and end up on till sometimes. It's hell. I end up with a couple of people like this EVERY SINGLE DAY. Like this one day, some lady comes in with a reciept showing that she had payed full price for a bag of sugar, when she had noticed that there was a sale sign and demanded the sale price. The sale tag was four days old, someone had forgotten to take it down, but I gave her the refund to keep from there being a problem. A huge line had built up by now, it was fairly busy, all because this old hag wanted her two dollars. I hand her the money, she looks at it and says... "Could you get me a two dollar scratch and win ticket?"

Ok, so I walk over to the tickets, take a two dollar, and give it to her. She scratches it right there and loses, therefore wasting about five minutes of my and every other person in line's time. It wasn't about some feigned principle of hers, or her simply being cheap, which I can marginally accept. It was just that she wanted to play a little lottery ticket with a low prize and terrible odds. Disgusting.

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