I was leaving work tonight, sometime around 11:00 pm, when I heard this. I work at one of the finest hotels in Sacramento California, aww heck, I’ll just say it, I work at the Hyatt Regency (it is where das Governator is currently living). I was leaving work, walking down one of the back halls, when I heard someone yell:
“WOOOOO!!! I AM MASTURBATING LIKE A MOTHER FUCK!!!”
I do not know who said this. I do not know why.
I do not know if it was the punchline to a joke. I do not know if it was happening just then and he wanted to brag.
I just know what I heard, and that it was among the most surreal moments of my life.
Damn!! It’s cool that you used the word “surreal” to describe this experience. A friend of mine and me were talkin about surreal experiences the other day and he tried to say that to be surreal, the event had to be something that seriously impacted and possibly totally changed your life. I said “hell no it doesn’t.” A thread on surreal experiences might be kinda cool. I’m too tired to start it now though.
It’s not really surreal, just weird and disgusting. Surreal would have to be not only weird and surprising, but “unreal” or (more properly) transcending what you believe to be real.
I wonder if surreal is the “ironic” of the new decade. I’ve heard it a lot lately.
Well, if you have to ask you don’t really understand the meaning of “surreal.” It’s not just something shocking and unexpected, but “having the intense irrational reality of a dream.” Hearing someone yell about masturbation is hardly “intensely irrational,” it’s just gross and weird.
I see the English language has lost another word. It can join “literally” and “ironic” in the afterlife of words that used to have meaning and now mean nothing at all.