We are currently visiting relatives (we're not the kind of family who can take more than 3 hours in a car together at a time, so we plan our journey with nice gaps for food). This gap involved me eating runner beans. That's not something I do.
So we're staying with aforementioned relatives, who I have been asked not to tell about Sara and I because it is believed they couldn't take it. For the last year I've seen them once. Today. I think I'll live, but it does always bring that awkward conversation up:
"So dear, how have you been?"
"Good, busy, lots of school work."
"Ohh... And do you have a boyfriend?"
"Err, no I don't... Funny that..."
"What a lovely smart girl like you? Oh well, maybe they don't like your hair."
Was that strictly necessary? What if I had been some single girl, maybe recently dumped, sore about being alone and they decided to insult my appearance? Old people are tactless. My youngest sibling recently had her ears pierced and showed it to her nan.
The response?
"Ohh... dear..."
Why would you do that? If there are any old people (or people with an old persons perspective), tell me that. WHY?
Friday, 14 August 2009
Old People
Posted by Skinny.Melon.Biris at 20:10
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JEALOUSY, my friend.
With their own fake-curly, funny-shade-of-magnolia-coloured locks beating a hasty retreat, you can't blame them for looking at your gorgeous blonde spikes and going...
"Ah gaddammit."
;)
SBHx
its not just old people its all adults, you do something vaguely different (or in my case nerdy) and you get a sharp inhilation of breath which when queried gets "nothing" in response
Its because they hate the idea of anything unconventional. generally. The ears pierced is confusing though, usually they had it done as well... though with them it was a sharpened earring and a cork... then just jabbed right through...
Unforunately you're all wrong, all you people above me.
They act like that cos they don't give a shit... they're too old to care! they do it cos they can get away with it... you wouldnt get angry with gran cos she said she doesnt like your hair, why? cos shes old... think about it...
have fun with the relatives!!
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