Are people really this dumb?
Here is a great story of how stupid and insensitive people can be...
Lisa, Paige and I strolled to our local Rogers Video this past weekend - the same Rogers Video that I used to work evenings and weekends at as I was going to tech school - and as we are entering the checkout lineup, the manager comes up to say hello.
He was the manager when I worked there (yes - his career goals are sky-high), and to be honest, the guy is a total putz. He still rocks the shaved head & goatee look that stormed pop culture when Stone Cold Steve Austin was WWF/E champ, and he tries to maintain the cool guy attitude by being everyone's friend and a buttery smooth conversationalist. This is the front he puts on - when in reality, he's an immature blabbermouthed simpleton who doesn’t know cool from Kool & the Gang.
So anyway, he says hello and says - "Oh this is your kid!", acting as if he has never seen her before, even though we have rented from that store approximately 63 times since she was in utero. He follows that up with, "She's cute - look at those blue eyes" - again, keeping it Velveeta to the end... but then he looks at me and drops:
"Oh a girl though dude? That's terrible... thank God I don’t have girls."
"That's terrible"? Terrible? After an exchange of shocked looks between Lisa and I, I wanted nothing more than to slap Mr. Manager with my copy of "Friends with Money", and follow it with an uppercut with "Poseidon".
Who says that?
I realize people (men) are oddly inclined to make the obligatory "get the shotgun ready" jokes when speaking to other men about their daughters, but to use the word terrible? Isnt that crossing the line? That's not crossing the insensitivity line - that's taking a Bob Beaman-esque leap over it.
Yeah, really terrible... isn't it?
Ultimately, I shrugged it off in classic Zimmer fashion, giving this moron the "Yeah... terrible... right..." line in deadpan fashion that was just dripping with obvious sarcasm. Oblivious to my not so thinly veiled shot at his insensitive comment, he moved on to some other customers - but I'm not sure if he was going to insult them and their 18month old daughters or not. My sarcastic comment aside, I really didn’t get to exact my revenge on this guy, except maybe, when I post this story on my blog for all the world to read.
Oh yeah, and I guess the ultimate revenge will be how this man's children grow up - he has two boys. My money isnt on them growing into insensitive, poorly educated, mouth-breathing sloths like their father... nope, its on them maturing into waif-like, well dressed metrosexuals who sit when they pee and have a certain proclivity for all things phallic.
...not that there is anything wrong with that...
PS - "Friends with Money" is easily the worst movie I have ever seen. Even ultra-hot Jenn Aniston couldn’t make that atrocity watchable. Coming in a close 2nd? "Poseidon".
Lisa, Paige and I strolled to our local Rogers Video this past weekend - the same Rogers Video that I used to work evenings and weekends at as I was going to tech school - and as we are entering the checkout lineup, the manager comes up to say hello.
He was the manager when I worked there (yes - his career goals are sky-high), and to be honest, the guy is a total putz. He still rocks the shaved head & goatee look that stormed pop culture when Stone Cold Steve Austin was WWF/E champ, and he tries to maintain the cool guy attitude by being everyone's friend and a buttery smooth conversationalist. This is the front he puts on - when in reality, he's an immature blabbermouthed simpleton who doesn’t know cool from Kool & the Gang.
So anyway, he says hello and says - "Oh this is your kid!", acting as if he has never seen her before, even though we have rented from that store approximately 63 times since she was in utero. He follows that up with, "She's cute - look at those blue eyes" - again, keeping it Velveeta to the end... but then he looks at me and drops:
"Oh a girl though dude? That's terrible... thank God I don’t have girls."
"That's terrible"? Terrible? After an exchange of shocked looks between Lisa and I, I wanted nothing more than to slap Mr. Manager with my copy of "Friends with Money", and follow it with an uppercut with "Poseidon".
Who says that?
I realize people (men) are oddly inclined to make the obligatory "get the shotgun ready" jokes when speaking to other men about their daughters, but to use the word terrible? Isnt that crossing the line? That's not crossing the insensitivity line - that's taking a Bob Beaman-esque leap over it.
Yeah, really terrible... isn't it?Ultimately, I shrugged it off in classic Zimmer fashion, giving this moron the "Yeah... terrible... right..." line in deadpan fashion that was just dripping with obvious sarcasm. Oblivious to my not so thinly veiled shot at his insensitive comment, he moved on to some other customers - but I'm not sure if he was going to insult them and their 18month old daughters or not. My sarcastic comment aside, I really didn’t get to exact my revenge on this guy, except maybe, when I post this story on my blog for all the world to read.
Oh yeah, and I guess the ultimate revenge will be how this man's children grow up - he has two boys. My money isnt on them growing into insensitive, poorly educated, mouth-breathing sloths like their father... nope, its on them maturing into waif-like, well dressed metrosexuals who sit when they pee and have a certain proclivity for all things phallic.
...not that there is anything wrong with that...
PS - "Friends with Money" is easily the worst movie I have ever seen. Even ultra-hot Jenn Aniston couldn’t make that atrocity watchable. Coming in a close 2nd? "Poseidon".
Labels: rants
posted by The Captain at 9/12/2006 12:20:00 PM
1 Comments:
I know the guy you speak of. Doesn't he have a second job delivering pizzas? Usually hidden insults like that are only because of jealousy. His boys probably aren't as cute as Paige if you put them all together.
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