Ray wrote:I hear you --and I'm sure you could come up with lots more examples if you had the patience. Like the slack-jawed convenience store clerk with football earrings who greets every customer with "How 'bout them Hogs". Or the jack-ass who haunts this forum who pushes it in our face every day.
Pfft. Yeah, I could. Like lately I can't get through a sermon at church without hearing about THE GAME.
By the way, I initially misread Polite24's rant as "There's a basketball IN my Coke."
Ray wrote:I hear you --and I'm sure you could come up with lots more examples if you had the patience. Like the slack-jawed convenience store clerk with football earrings who greets every customer with "How 'bout them Hogs". Or the jack-ass who haunts this forum who pushes it in our face every day.
Pfft. Yeah, I could. Like lately I can't get through a sermon at church without hearing about THE GAME.
Another good example. And then you have to force a chuckle in response --as if you actually cared about something as stupid as that--just so everyone will think you're normal.
I can understand you misreading Polite24's response. It had a sort of hysterical tone, didn't it?
abitagirl wrote:Pfft. Yeah, I could. Like lately I can't get through a sermon at church without hearing about THE GAME.
Another good example. And then you have to force a chuckle in response --as if you actually cared about something as stupid as that--just so everyone will think you're normal.
Actually, I haven't done that. I may have even rolled my eyes a time or two. I doubt anybody noticed though.