Had yet another brush with normal people that pisses me off today. How many more of these do I have to live through?
I'm not even all that off, to be honest. I wear a lot of black, true. I have long hair and a goatee, also true. And yes, I have that most rare of inate skills of saying the most wildly inappropriate things at the most inappropriate of times. Actually turned that last one into an artform at times to make myself giggle. Just turn off that inboard censor and let 'er rip. See who in the crowd walks away first. Twenty points if it's the phony with the eyebrow ring trying to be edgy.
Anyhow, long story short-
You all have this 'missed connections' section of your local Craig's List. Essentially its where shy perverts hope people they saw during the day that they fancied will some day go to hear what lovely things they said about them in pure anonymity.
So somebody placed one about some kid we have working at my place last week. I read it after the fact; maybe a little creepy, but not horrible. I've seen much worse. Anyway, should have ended there, but of course a certain person I work with saw this as a perfect oppurtunity to get insulting and arrogant, so replied there in full insulting force, in just another way for him to feel cool and superior, which is a sad character flaw of his (another entry enitre right there).
Okay, skip to the point; Here I am, dressed in mostly black, goatee, and that colorful negative attitude, minding my own business, But still looking like Satan at a barbecue, walking into work with all this stupid shit going on around me. And it took me a while to realize that just a few people where I work actually thought that IT WAS ME who sent this creepy CL posting in the first place.
Okay, first off, the woman in question does certainly seem like a very nice lady, but I hardly know her, and if I wanted to know her better, I work there so I'd just ask her out, not go to some random website.
And secondly, while she certainly seems like a very nice woman, personally and otherwise I very much doubt she is my type. Frankly she strikes me, as while being really cool to talk to, far too much of a goody twoshoes to really get into in any other way than platonically.
They thought it was me because here they see some creepy activity and then they look around and they see me, who looks creepy to them. I was asked if I go to Craig's List recently long before I found out why they were curious.
This is what pisses me off. Tons. Simply tons.
Can someone please explain to all 'normal' people, the non tattoed, non pierced, non long haired, non colorful characters, non stick to the norms, that most of the nasty things that happen to people are not caused by us? We do not do it. Rarely ever did. For the simple reason that anyone who actually wants to get away with something horrible would do anything they can to fit in so they can get away with it. I'd look more like everyone else if I wanted to do something evil. Never suspect that mild mannered neighbor...
I personally have a serious persecution complex. I know it, I fight against it, I usually win it, but I get this type of shit heaped on top of what i am already fighting and its almost insurmountable. Just when I convince myself I am a good person I have to deal with this shit. Just because I won't be normal I have to have these subtle accusations at me as well. And believe me all it takes is a subtle accusation and it can wrecks weeks of confidence building.
"Will I never be normal?"
"Well, no."
"No?"
"No."
"Oh. Can I at least be upper class?"
"I think we can arrange that."
I'm not even all that off, to be honest. I wear a lot of black, true. I have long hair and a goatee, also true. And yes, I have that most rare of inate skills of saying the most wildly inappropriate things at the most inappropriate of times. Actually turned that last one into an artform at times to make myself giggle. Just turn off that inboard censor and let 'er rip. See who in the crowd walks away first. Twenty points if it's the phony with the eyebrow ring trying to be edgy.
Anyhow, long story short-
You all have this 'missed connections' section of your local Craig's List. Essentially its where shy perverts hope people they saw during the day that they fancied will some day go to hear what lovely things they said about them in pure anonymity.
So somebody placed one about some kid we have working at my place last week. I read it after the fact; maybe a little creepy, but not horrible. I've seen much worse. Anyway, should have ended there, but of course a certain person I work with saw this as a perfect oppurtunity to get insulting and arrogant, so replied there in full insulting force, in just another way for him to feel cool and superior, which is a sad character flaw of his (another entry enitre right there).
Okay, skip to the point; Here I am, dressed in mostly black, goatee, and that colorful negative attitude, minding my own business, But still looking like Satan at a barbecue, walking into work with all this stupid shit going on around me. And it took me a while to realize that just a few people where I work actually thought that IT WAS ME who sent this creepy CL posting in the first place.
Okay, first off, the woman in question does certainly seem like a very nice lady, but I hardly know her, and if I wanted to know her better, I work there so I'd just ask her out, not go to some random website.
And secondly, while she certainly seems like a very nice woman, personally and otherwise I very much doubt she is my type. Frankly she strikes me, as while being really cool to talk to, far too much of a goody twoshoes to really get into in any other way than platonically.
They thought it was me because here they see some creepy activity and then they look around and they see me, who looks creepy to them. I was asked if I go to Craig's List recently long before I found out why they were curious.
This is what pisses me off. Tons. Simply tons.
Can someone please explain to all 'normal' people, the non tattoed, non pierced, non long haired, non colorful characters, non stick to the norms, that most of the nasty things that happen to people are not caused by us? We do not do it. Rarely ever did. For the simple reason that anyone who actually wants to get away with something horrible would do anything they can to fit in so they can get away with it. I'd look more like everyone else if I wanted to do something evil. Never suspect that mild mannered neighbor...
I personally have a serious persecution complex. I know it, I fight against it, I usually win it, but I get this type of shit heaped on top of what i am already fighting and its almost insurmountable. Just when I convince myself I am a good person I have to deal with this shit. Just because I won't be normal I have to have these subtle accusations at me as well. And believe me all it takes is a subtle accusation and it can wrecks weeks of confidence building.
"Will I never be normal?"
"Well, no."
"No?"
"No."
"Oh. Can I at least be upper class?"
"I think we can arrange that."
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just walk into work one day, stab a huge skinnin' knife into something wooden, deep as you can. then start ranting about how if you really wanted to fuck with somebody 'this is how i'd do it, assholes' while using the knife to carve satanic symbols into the surface. then spit into the face of the first person who comes within ten feet of you while you're doing this. tell them it's 'god's love' and if they want more of it 'you know where to get it' while rubbing your crotch ferciously.
they'll leave you alone after that, i'd wager.