Sometimes I relate too much to Curb Your Enthusiasm, and I get mildly distressed. I have an almost super-human ability to put my foot in my mouth and place myself in ambiguous, socially precarious positions.
I was remembering the first time I failed my driving test about 3 years ago. I was approaching the door of the DMV with my sister, when a large man sporting the most festered, coonskin cap-lookin mullet Ive ever seen walks out. Thinking he's out of ear range, I of course comment this to my sister and we both have a good laugh. 45 minutes or so later I am instructed to pull my car around and wait for my instructor. Of course it's the mullet man. I still didn't think he heard me, but I felt really uncomfortable. After the test is completed and were pulling back in to the DMV, he tells me about stupid little nit-picky reasons why I didn't pass the test. I get out of the car, he gets out of the car, we begin to walk back toward the building and he says something like "festering coon skin cap, eh?"
3 years later and Ive still got it! There are countless other examples, maybe I'll write some for kicks later. However, I still remain unrepentant. I tend to think of my actions as sensibly within reason (most of the time). Of course I do often think back on things Ive done and recognize that I wouldn't always make the same choices given my current knowledge, but how was I to know? I regret nothing.
Pseudo intellectual proverb of the day:
What you don't know can't hurt you, unless you don't know that you can't safely place your hand on a waffle iron... then it hurts pretty bad. (I did this when I was 2)
I was remembering the first time I failed my driving test about 3 years ago. I was approaching the door of the DMV with my sister, when a large man sporting the most festered, coonskin cap-lookin mullet Ive ever seen walks out. Thinking he's out of ear range, I of course comment this to my sister and we both have a good laugh. 45 minutes or so later I am instructed to pull my car around and wait for my instructor. Of course it's the mullet man. I still didn't think he heard me, but I felt really uncomfortable. After the test is completed and were pulling back in to the DMV, he tells me about stupid little nit-picky reasons why I didn't pass the test. I get out of the car, he gets out of the car, we begin to walk back toward the building and he says something like "festering coon skin cap, eh?"
3 years later and Ive still got it! There are countless other examples, maybe I'll write some for kicks later. However, I still remain unrepentant. I tend to think of my actions as sensibly within reason (most of the time). Of course I do often think back on things Ive done and recognize that I wouldn't always make the same choices given my current knowledge, but how was I to know? I regret nothing.
Pseudo intellectual proverb of the day:
What you don't know can't hurt you, unless you don't know that you can't safely place your hand on a waffle iron... then it hurts pretty bad. (I did this when I was 2)
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soma__:
oh my freaking goodness, I fucking LOVE that show! significant portions of work this semester were ignored in order to watch this show for hours on end. oh my god and I totally am Larry David sometimes too. But I've already concluded I am an old Jewish man anyway- the precise makeup would be: Woody Allen + Charlie Kaufman + Larry David. ahhhh. I failed my driving test too. and the written 
gekkeiju23:
i am tentatively sweaty.