I really should send thank you cards to people at times like this. Some of the things I overhear are far more comical than anything anyone could dream up.
This was from a very young couple, behind me at the grocery store, buying beer… I assume with a fake ID.
Boy: (loudly) Check this out. Do you want to read about Angelina’s double masta… masta-cot-omy?
Girl: (quietly) Mastectomy
Boy: Oh ya. That’s some kind of girl surgery, right?
Girl: (again, quietly, and obviously embarrassed) Um….. ya.
Boy: Ya. Ok. Whatever gets you off. Stupid Hollywood chicks.
Girl: Oh my God. You’re an idiot.
Boy: What?
Girl: Moron. She had her boobs removed so she wouldn’t get cancer.
Boy: Fuuuuuuuuuuck. (short silence) I hope they kept those. You could totally sell ’em on ebay.
Girl: (silently walks out of the store, leaving him in line alone)
She really should have curtsied. It was pure awesome. I couldn’t help hoping that she drove off and left him there.
Happy Monday!
I think this is a problem and I fear that often young women have these encounters with idiots (which so many of us are as young men). Rather than using the experience as a launch pad to a better existence, she often will resort (later on) to defining herself down because, yes, he’s an idiot, but at least he’s resolute about it, and I like confidence, dag nabbit!
*sigh* Yup. Boys… stop being confidently stupid. It’s annoying.