All For the Love of You
Why, oh why, can't we work lots of hours, take care of everything, make lots of money, AND have time to update our blogs? And keep up with our television viewing requirements? The answer to these questions will make someone rich one day. And possibly enshrined as a minor deity.
I have discovered that mean people suck. Well, rediscovered, anyway. I won't go into it... You, gentle reader, are probably plenty aware of the many ways in which The Suck is propagated.
Also: Tony the mad Cassock does not know how to interact with Americans and not piss them off. Ah, well. I get peeved by Tony myself, and then I remember: he's just an asshat. His head is so far up his ass, he's wearing it as a hat. So I get over it.
I used the word "downtrodden," and he didn't recognize this word. (You'd think being in the country for twenty years would have familiarized him with this word, since he works in direct mail. Never mind; you'd have to know what a crappy kind of work environment direct-mail usually is, to understand that emphasis.)
So, he repeats the word, taking care to emphasize just how hard it is to understand my terrible enunciation: "Down-TURDEN? Down-TORDING? I know this word, DOWN. I don't know DOWNTUDDIN!" He makes me look it up in his English dictionary.
And, looking it up for him, and highlighting it as he demanded, made me wish I had used a different word. One that would be more appropriate to the situation. It wouldn't work, though. "Asshat" isn't in his edition of the dictionary.
I have discovered that mean people suck. Well, rediscovered, anyway. I won't go into it... You, gentle reader, are probably plenty aware of the many ways in which The Suck is propagated.
Also: Tony the mad Cassock does not know how to interact with Americans and not piss them off. Ah, well. I get peeved by Tony myself, and then I remember: he's just an asshat. His head is so far up his ass, he's wearing it as a hat. So I get over it.
I used the word "downtrodden," and he didn't recognize this word. (You'd think being in the country for twenty years would have familiarized him with this word, since he works in direct mail. Never mind; you'd have to know what a crappy kind of work environment direct-mail usually is, to understand that emphasis.)
So, he repeats the word, taking care to emphasize just how hard it is to understand my terrible enunciation: "Down-TURDEN? Down-TORDING? I know this word, DOWN. I don't know DOWNTUDDIN!" He makes me look it up in his English dictionary.
And, looking it up for him, and highlighting it as he demanded, made me wish I had used a different word. One that would be more appropriate to the situation. It wouldn't work, though. "Asshat" isn't in his edition of the dictionary.
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