An uptight middle aged couple getting all haughty about a friend’s sarcastic remark made about having to keep his limbs inside one of those limo carts theme parks use to transport people from their parking lots to the park itself. We were at a Springs, and the cart was moving at about 15 mph. If that.
Kyle: Chyeah, I’m sure they lose dozens of people on these things every year. Watch out!
Woman: They shouldn’t be making fun like that, they’re bound to offend someone.
Man: No respect at all.
Daughter: I thought it was funny, mom.
Woman: Yeah? Well a lot of people wouldn’t :mad: .
Yes. I’m sure the park employees take sarcastic comments about safety regulations dead personal. Seriously, if a throwaway comment like this that’s not even directed at you offends you, well, I just don’t know where you find your opportunities to laugh. Lame.
At my first college (hi, Tabula Rasa!), there was a guy whose appearance was right out of 1950. Way overdeveloped torso straining at a button-down shirt. Horn-rimmed glasses. And hair that was just short of a pompadour, clotted with some kind of greasy kid stuff.
Now, I didn’t see this happen, but I have no reason to disbelieve it. The campus had a weight room. This guy would work out a lot, naturally, and one day another guy I knew was also in there. When he went into the bathroom (or locker room, but I’m not sure there was one), Mr. 1950 (who was also an Ayn Rand devotee; wonder if that had anything to do with it?) was standing at the mirror, combing his hair. The other guy washed his face and pits, went into a stall and changed clothes, stayed in the stall for a bit, the whole thing taking, he said, ten minutes (he timed it). Comes out and 1950 is still combing his hair.
Oh, and no, he was not handsome. Though he claimed to be.
It’s impossible to tell whether that’s a $5000 suit or a $50 suit because the picture’s too dark to tell. But I know it can’t be a $5000 suit because:
That tie looks like a wool peice of shit, and the shirt doesn’t fit. Why would you buy a $5000 suit and wear it with a $9 tie and a $19 shirt? At least spring for a silk tie, for Christ’s sake. If you actually offered to buy a $5000 suit and said you wanted them to throw in a decent tie, they would, and
I don’t think that dork would even know where to buy a $5000 suit. You don’t pick up $5000 suits off the rack at J.C. Penney.
That guy doesn’t look like he’s going to pick up chicks. He looks like he’s about to hand me a copy of “The Watchtower.”
I’ve never done this but I’ve always been tempted to get a nondescript late-model vehicle, white, and on the doors paint a big black UPC barcode and “CAR.”
Better still would be: A Volvo station wagon. With spinning rims and purple neon undercarriage lights.
Shit, anyone wearing one of those earpieces while not actually using it is lame. I even think people who talk on the phone while doing somehting else at the same time is a little bit lame. If I have to choose between them, then I am too busy to talk on the phone. I suppose with some jobs there may not be a choice, except there is a choice: another line of work.
I’m not sure what you mean. I do things while talking on the phone all the time. Heck, that’s probably the only time I ever clean my bedroom. At the very least, I walk around. I get fidgety if I just sit still while on the phone.
I meant things that require attention be paid to them that talking on the phone detracts from, such as driving. Cooking, cleaning, etc., have always been done while people talked on the phone. But some people will be on their cell phone any time, anywhere. It gets irritating to be getting groceries and hear some jackass talking on the phone with someone at his house about what they’ll be doing as soon as he gets home. I mean geez, why not just talk after he/she walks through the door? Cell phone technology is extremely sophisticated, and collectively we pay billions for the privilege of using it, for what? So we can gab about pointless crap. Lame. :rolleyes:
I don’t see how that is irritating. Why do you care if they’re talking to someone on the phone or someone next to them? And don’t say it is because you can only hear one side of the conversation, because the conversation is none of your beeswax one way or the other. I suppose you never “gab about pointless crap” in person? You must be a lot of fun in social settings. Why does it matter whether you do it via technology or face to face? (And in my case? Whoever I’m talking to on my phone is NOT someone I could easily be talking to face to face, since virtually everyone I know lives in other states.) I can see the point about people talking on their phone while doing something like open heart surgery or driving, but grocery shopping? Hell it’s boring! Why shouldn’t I use that time to chat? I completely fail to see why you should care at all.
Well, first of all, the example I gave eliminates the talking you do, as you’re talking to people you can’t talk to in person. Secondly,
really is part of the problem, because whatever half of the conversation I can hear, I don’t give a fuck either way. Yet people on cell phones tend to talk LOUDLY, which makes them impossible to ignore. I have to lsten to their inane chatter whether I want to or not.
And no, I really don’t talk about “pointless crap” in person or on the phone. To me, a phone is to either A) talk to people I can’t see in person (same as you), or B) to take care of important things, such as my boss calling and asking me to come in early. I am paying to use my cellphone; I’ll not pay to hear/engage in idle banter that can otherwise be engaged in free.
Lastly, I like to concentrate on the task at hand. I don’t go to the grocery store to talk on the phone, I go to the grocery store to buy groceries and get the hell out. If grocery shopping is boring, why prolong it on the phone?
I’ve heard some of the weirdest and intimate conversations in stores and it always makes me wonder why people will talk about their personal shit in front of strangers, as if we can help but hear it. It is my opinion that these people cannot be on their own for any amount of time without having someone to “virtually” hold hands with. As an independent type, I don’t get it. I assume they are either lonely or extremely attention-seeking. It is incrediby lame either way.
