Koxinga
August 18, 2011, 11:32pm
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Avarie537:
Close enough to a stranger, I guess … I took my two kids into the dentist’s office on Monday for exams and x-rays. The hygienist was mentioning that our insurance company doesn’t cover fluoride treatments for children, and her outraged expression was, “That’s just so … so … UNCHRISTIAN!!” WTF? Does she really think that Wellpoint bases company policy on the bible? I was flabbergasted.
I don’t think that’s so strange. She was probably grasping for the word “uncharitable” and used the nearest synonym (as she defined it) that came to mind.
Steken:
So I’m getting drunk up here in Copenhagen, Denmark, rockin’ a spiffy varsity jacket and a vaguely 50’s-ish haircut. I march up to the bar to grab some beers for me and my mates when an big old guy in a leather jacket turns around in his chair to tell me that I look “just like James Dean.”
I go “hey, thanks, that’s nice ,” assuming that’s the end of it. But the guy immediately fires back: “No no no no no , wait a minute, wait a minute… Did you just say nice ?”
I go “yeah, sure, ‘nice’… As in, that was nice of you, I mean… To say what you just said.” But the guy keeps it up: “No, but you said ‘nice’? What’s ‘nice’ about what I just said? What do you mean, ‘nice’?” Assuming the guy is probably just fucking with me á la Joe Pesci in GoodFellas , I try to de-escalate: “Right… Well. OK. Uh… Take care.”
And that probably would have been it – a pretty forgettable attempt by some random douche to pick a fight with a stranger – if he hadn’t decided to suddenly push the creepiness factor waaaaaay up to 11 by delivering the following line, endlessly quoted and re-quoted by my friends in the years since: “So… OK. Let’s say the following happens. Let’s say… I rape you. And film it. And then put the vid on the Internet. Would that be… ‘nice’?”
:eek:
Maybe he was trying to pick you up.
