May 26 2007
What Not to Talk About on a Date
Last night Boyfriend and I went out to eat. The restaurant wasn’t very crowded, but there was a couple seated in the booth next to us. The woman was very loud, almost as if she was talking to someone who was hard of hearing. The man barely spoke. The conversation was unremarkable until the woman started talking about medicine. She talked in great detail of a colonoscopy she recently had, and talked about all sorts of other tests she had. Gallbladder, kidneys, MRI, more mention of the colon, etc. And yet the doctors don’t know what’s wrong with her.
A bit later in the evening the waiter came by and asked if they would like their food wrapped to go home. This is the first we heard the man speak. He said, "I’m feeling sick." Ya think?
And this damn laptop is really driving me nuts. The damn apostrophe/quote mark key is fucked up. Apostrophes don’t show on my screen until I type the next character, and when I try to type "I, for example, I end up with Ï. WTF? It only happens with vowels. Strange, very strange.
Check your keyboard layout. It sounds like it got switched to a layout that uses “dead keys,” which don’t produce any characters themselves but add an accent mark to the next letter (usually a vowel) that is typed.
I feel kind of vomity now too.
I hate loud talkers. Especially at restaurants. My husband tends to BE one of this offenders from time to time. So I have to remind him that I am only a foot away from him. Then he laughs.
I guess I can be thankful that he isn’t the other thing that pisses me off in a dining atmosphere…Kids who are covered head to toe in ketchup, and trying the best to catapult their body over the top of the both seat onto my head!
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Ah, hahahaha! I think I’d be feeling sick, too.
Hope the laptop situation improves.