Why Being Female is Fun!

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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The store that I work in is located next to a deli. Because I am a flake, and lack the organization to prepare food ahead of time, I usually end up skibbling over there for my dinner break. Tonight when I did my customary skibble, the cute manager (I assume, he’s always there, and has an air of authority) waved me by. I assumed he thought I had paid at the other register. “No,” honest Swiddles said. “I didn’t pay over there.”
“You work next door, right?” says CuteManager. I nod. “Yea. It’s cool.” So I got a portabello sandwich for free! Yahooie! When I got back from break, I had to tell my coworkers, both guys this evening, that I got dinner free. They were both mildly annoyed, citing “Damn chicks. Getting free food…” I pointed out that THEY had been getting discounts for a long time and I hadn’t.

Which got me thinking. I’ve never flirted my way out of a speeding ticket (“Yea. I know I was speeding. Just give me the godammed ticket.”), and in fact, asside from instances where I was outright dating the guy, can’t think of an instance where I got a freebie JUST for being a girl. A bouncer passed me at a bar when I was 18 (ie: looked at my ID, and gave me a bracelet anyway) What about you, fellow Doperettes? If you had to flirt for it, it doesn’t count, I’m talking about instances where you’re minding your own business and BAM! Girly bonus!

ps: I bought a pair of sassy knee length boots the other day. New shoe high is also an advantage to being a girl. Yea!

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Never been passed for being a girly, but I know ALL about the New Shoe High. Best feeling in the world. :smiley: Enjoy those boots! (Which reminds me, I haven’t been shopping in a long time. <evil grin>)

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I don’t know, i think those would look good on a guy…:slight_smile:

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I can get away with stuff!!!

The other day at work, this guy come in, complete asshole, by listening to him talk to his buddies, I figured out that he washed out as a craps dealer. This is not an easy thing to do, because there is such a shortage of dice dealers in downtown Vegas.

Now, normally, I am polite, and even aggressively friendly with players, and I even manage to be nice to the jerks, because sometimes they will throw in a little money for the dealers when they’re done playing. But this guy got my goat, and I don’t even have a goat.

Anyhoo, he was jerking the dealers around, being rude, insulting our dealing ability, and generally making an ass of himself. Seven out, I’m cleaning up the layout, he drops a five dollar chip, it rolls into my layout… and I clean it up. He starts screaming and yelling, demands the chip back, I told him I couldn’t give it back without a manager’s approval. Meantime, the floorman has left the pit on some trivial errand. So, I’m stuck with this guy. He throws twenty dollars right smack into my layout, yells out a bet and says, “Can you book that?” I picked the money up and slammed it down in front of him and said, “Can you quit throwing your money into my layout where it can get lost?” (a craps dealer would know better than to do the things he was doing) He runs off, rounds up my Shift Manager, who comes storming up to the table, grabs a chip off my stack, throws it at the guy and says, “It’s only a nickel, who cares.”

Later, I looked all sad at the shift boss, and he said, “Relax, I don’t care about a guy making a claim.”

I didn’t even get a verbal warning.

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I can’t quite relate to the “new shoe high”. Is it similar to the “new power tool buzz”? :smiley:

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This is why women are the weaker species…

They have all manipulative power in their hands…yet we men remain in control.

Bwahahahahhahaa!!!

dodges tomato and runs

-SS :smiley:

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SkySlash, that’s what they want you to think…

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mmm… new power tool buzz… Its the same as “new engine to tinker about with” elation and “Couch sunday” trip.

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Ralf and TwistofFate - actually, I’m a girl, but I prefer “new power tool buzz” - now get me started on “new engine to tinker with” - oh man, last Thursday, I was “Ether Girl” and helped get a 1940 tractor that hasn’t run in 20 years going again. Oh, I just LOVE that sound when an engine FINALLY turns over…

Screw shopping, I’m going back to the compound (with all the trucks, cars, bikes, etc. and stuff, that’s what we call my house! :D)

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Personally, I hate being singled out for special treatment because I’m a “girl” - it’s embarassing. I don’t mind recognition when I’ve done something… in fact, I think I deserve that. I’m not a radical type who’ll yell at someone who holds the door for me, but I feel it’s patronizing to bestow some “honor” upon me just because of my plumbing.

OTOH, if you talk down to me or treat me like I’m a lesser human, I’ll kick you ass.

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But remember, FCM, the words of that great gentleman Homer Simpson:

“A woman is like…a beer. She smells good, she looks good, and you’d climb over your own mother just to get at one.”

Swid, I’m not sure it was your feminine wiles that earned you free grub. If I worked in a deli and I saw the same bedraggled video-store worker come in night after night to purchase a cold sandwich when he/she obviously needed hot nourishing food in his/her tummy, I’d probably say “Go ahead, just TAKE the goddam sammich!” too. And I’d probably throw in a cup of soup.

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Sorry, but these advantages seem paltry compared to the price you have to pay :stuck_out_tongue:
::ducking and running::
::but still glad to be born with the delux equipment package::

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I bought 4 pair of shoes in one day last week.
Does that qualify me as an honorary girly?
(My new clogs are to die for, and my docs are caressing my tootsies right now.)

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On a related topic, it really bugs me when women try to flirt their way into something they don’t deserve, that no guy would be given. Frankly, to put a fine point on it, it’s a little slluty (I have to misspell that, or the net filter here will cut it out). It’s an implication that feminine favors will be forthcoming if the thing is given, but of course it’s not true. So I end up really losing respect for the woman. Not only is she using secks (see above) as a manipulative tool, she’s not even honest about it.

And then there’re the women who act all helpless so that guys will do stuff for them that they just don’t feel like doing at the moment, but are perfectly capable of…

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Too easy.

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When Sakura was a wee bit of a thing, I remember taking her into a 7-Eleven, and while I was putting my purchases on the counter, the proprietor trotted off and got a tiny little cup with Slurpee in it for her. She got other little freebies like that on other occasions, just, I assume, for being a cute little girl with pigtails. At any rate, I never got stuff for being the dad of a cute little girl with pigtails.

Wait till she sees this thread, she’ll be humming I Enjoy Being A Girl the rest of the night.

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I stopped at Mac’s with one of my guy friends, and the cashier gave me free Reese Sticks. :smiley:

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I would call that a coconut, when you just walk in not expecting anything and it just BAMN WHACK right in the head, a coconut falls on you.

I have had a few, but I dont think they are from being just a girl, it probably has something to do with your rack!
If you lean over just right you cant get about anything you want, Right Lisa, you should have SEEN your wedding dress.

PUT THOSE AWAY YOU CAN POKE SOMEONES EYES OUT WITH THEM THINGS!!!

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I would call that a coconut, when you just walk in not expecting anything and it just BAMN WHACK right in the head, a coconut falls on you.

I have had a few, but I dont think they are from being just a girl, it probably has something to do with your rack!
If you lean over just right you cant get about anything you want, Right Lisa, you should have SEEN your wedding dress.

PUT THOSE AWAY YOU CAN POKE SOMEONES EYES OUT WITH THEM THINGS!!!

And my daughter gets free icecream at Mickey D’s for being so darn cute too, Dave.

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Yeah, Mandi, but now that she’s 15, I’m worried about what sorts of goodies she’s going to be offered NOW! :eek: