You Never Know Who's Listening
Even if you know you never want to be friends with the woman next to you on the elliptical (although, really, 'never' is a long time), if you live in the same area, and you both have kids, you might have to work together someday. You might not realize she's the LLL Leader you'll call a year from now, or the future room mother in your son's classroom. You might encounter each other in sports or scouts or any number of venues. She's going to remember you, though, because in the space of two minutes, you cruelly made fun of and stereotyped two groups of which she is a part. Nothing she can change, either, just group x is this way, group y is this way, and she's part of both of them. Many people are. About half of my flist falls into group x; another portion falls into group y, and some are both. Nothing we can change, either, so no, it's not about when you have babies or anything so prone to a choice as that.
But ladies, that's how I'll remember you - telling each other that someone like me, in both groups, is automatically neurotic, uneducated, uninformed, naive, and socially maladjusted. Thank you, though, for reminding me why we shouldn't judge, and we should always, always be careful of what we say.
Yeah. I just had to get that out. On the plus side, I got about five minutes of real intense exercise because of them.
On a completely different note, here are five simple pleasures for today:
1. The UPS trucks. This is utterly geeky, but I find it fascinating to watch all the UPS trucks go down 120 around 9 am. It's even more fun if you're going all the way into Roswell.
2. Sushi. Sushi's very simple - just rice and fish!
3. Gillian singing "One Tin Soldier."
4. Friday at 9 am!
5. My weekly milkshake this afternoon.
But ladies, that's how I'll remember you - telling each other that someone like me, in both groups, is automatically neurotic, uneducated, uninformed, naive, and socially maladjusted. Thank you, though, for reminding me why we shouldn't judge, and we should always, always be careful of what we say.
Yeah. I just had to get that out. On the plus side, I got about five minutes of real intense exercise because of them.
On a completely different note, here are five simple pleasures for today:
1. The UPS trucks. This is utterly geeky, but I find it fascinating to watch all the UPS trucks go down 120 around 9 am. It's even more fun if you're going all the way into Roswell.
2. Sushi. Sushi's very simple - just rice and fish!
3. Gillian singing "One Tin Soldier."
4. Friday at 9 am!
5. My weekly milkshake this afternoon.