so i'm usually more even-tempered, but there is this new guy at work who really manages to tick me off. i get along well with most people, but we're just not well tuned i guess. so i try to politely attend small talk, but mostly keep me busy with stuff that's just lying about, waiting to be done. it does not help, that he's got lots of issues, which cause him to get hectic and screw things up, but hell, i explain again and clean up the mess.
but, sometimes it's really unnerving how he is or acts so damn vanilla, and not in a good way.
and today he really got me on the edge. things get ugly when people manage to get me to that point, and i don't like that, meh.
first, when we were just casually talking this and that, he mentions how i resemble some schoolmate of his with my shirt and hairdo today. i tell him jokingly that my outfit makes me look like a farmer (shirt and pants don't go together that well, alas^^), but i don't mind, i love the shirt. then he's mumbling something about people drawing the wrong conclusions. GRRR.
uhm, i tell him i don't mind, because, what do i care? oh, you got a customer *twinkle*
he's the only person at work EVER to comment on my style, anyone else simply don't cares or isn't so focused on how people are supposed to "be"
i'm already annoyed. i decide some music may help and pick out some placebo dvd and start it. *sigh* i take a break, a can of red bull and a cigarette, all is good.
cue "mr-awesome-good-boy-dude".
he: "hey, what did you just put on?"
me: "placebo"
he: "okay, no idea" walking by television "oh, that's the band with the singer who looks like a girl, right?
me: *choke* "well, i wouldn't put it like that, but it seem to be a commom perception, aye.
customer, pls" *bristle*
and it doesn't stop right here. no, it's going downhill. and fast.
(to understand the following you ought to know that i work in a video store. with an adult only section, of course)
customer returning dvds in the smudgy back section, regular customer. gay.
i put the stuff on a shelf, and turn my way. mentioned "mr-awesome-good-boy-dude" glances at it, and asks if said customer returned it. i affirm. he stops for a second and goes "i never thought that such people (i resist the urge to ask what "such people" means) watch such movies". i know pretty well what "such movies" means, but ask anyhow "uhm, gay stuff you mean?" he's hesitating, knowing that he ->-bleeped-<-ed up, but i go in full drama mode, proclaiming "gawd, how dare they!!!??!"
he's all silent, mumbling something about knowing the guy businesswise, and having noticed that he was slightly embarrassed about meeting him there and all and acting weird since then. and adding that he's finding that strange.
hm, i just tell him that strange maybe wasn't the right word, that sad would nail it better, and if he doesn't think that this says something about our society and blabla.
i didn't get a reply.
[i don't expect anyone to actually read that monstrosity, but it's nice to vent it out^^]
