Is This A Compliment??!!??!!

[waitingman]

The Alpha-est of Males was here again earlier this evening. My orientation is obviously no longer in question...

Then again, what would you think/say when confronted with this statement...

"I obviously think you're alright, 'cause I turned down a root to be here with you tonight instead..."

Only after my jaw hit the ground did he go on to give further enlightening explanations of having earlier spurned the determined & unambiguous advances of a female Western Suburban hairdresser. At which point I let go of the wine bottle I'd instinctively grasped in 'Combat Position' & made some innocuous blokey, empathetic comment (sorry AquanD, no lisp this time... didn't think quick enough...).

However, he did let slip today that I'm thought of as a 'Drama Queen' by some staff & management at other stores... I don't particularly care, as long as they do what I want/need them to do when I want/need them to do it... Thusfar they mostly do, after a bit of what I wouldn't call 'drama' so much as 'inventive personal abuse'... but there's a time-honoured saying about casting pearls before swine.

Maybe a better approach would be a lot less Groucho Marx & a lot more Eric Cartman. Do you, dear reader, think it would help both my job & reputation if my line of abuse owed less to Groucho than to Eric??

Rhetorical... if you prefer.

Comments

[thebellman.livejournal.com]

Stick with groucho. At the very least, it will confuse and bewilder the small minded at the same time that you are insulting them.

groucho

[floyd277.livejournal.com]

Groucho wins, Cartman just doesn't have the repetoire of Groucho

[reynardo.livejournal.com]

If you want them to be puzzled, stick with Groucho.

Oh - and by the way, underage photo controversy :-)

[aquandrian.livejournal.com]

*lol* I think my favourite part of your reaction was the "wine bottle I'd instinctively grasped in 'Combat Position'" ... you have far more restraint than me.

Funny how people who actually have standards of personal and workplace integrity are invariably denounced as drama queens. Been there, done that, rolled my eyes and carried on drama queening.