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Sunday, September 09, 2007
It doesn't help that I have a 10:30 bedtime
On the ferry home from Meg and Karl's this evening, Chris overheard the girl a few seats over from us refer to us, in a cellphone conversation, as "a middle-aged couple."
Oh, ahahahahaha! I'm so sorry, but that made me laugh out loud. I kind of pictured what you and Chris must have looked like to attract such a comment. I pictured Chris wearing high-rise trousers and polished shoes with white tube socks, squinting at a book through his glasses, and you leaning against him with a hand on his knee, staring into space, dozing off a little, maybe with an afghan draped over your knees. And then I laughed, having pictured this. Hee!
Kate: Well, I was wearing a brown going-to-conferences blazer with dark jeans. And hikers, because my feet were sore. And I was looking really haggard that day, thanks to Putting Together IKEA Shelving Until After Midnight. For once, Chris wasn't wearing tube socks with polished shoes. Instead, he was wearing navy dress socks with runners.
I think that more of what attracted that comment was that I was clearly grumpy about her choice to flout Ferry Etiquette by taking up a laptop table ("These Tables Are For Guests With Computers Only") with her groceries, and then proceeding to sit elsewhere while talking on her cellphone. While we had to sit in airplane-style chairs, while balancing laptops on our knees. I was grumpy about that, and may have leaned over to Chris and said "She doesn't even have a computer! And she's not even sitting there!" She must have heard me. And was passive-aggressively fighting back by talking about us on her phone.
If you're "curmudgeonly at a youngish age" then so am I! And proud of it! My blog is full of curmudgeonliness right now. If thinking that rude and/or thoughtless behaviour ought to be smacked out of people at a young age is wrong, then I don't wanna be right.
I would have done the same thing as you, or perhaps gone further and just moved her bags to the floor and used the table myself. I have done similar things before. I just figure that I am not interested in having such thoughtless people like me, so I don't mind doing things that will make them not like me!
6 comments:
Maybe she knows something about your life expectancy that you don't. think about it...
ouch. hey, my mom is middle aged and she's in bed by 9pm. you're practically a night owl.
anyway, one of my students last was fall sure I must be at least 35 (I'm 29) and 35 is practically middle aged when you're 18. so it isn't just you.
Oh, ahahahahaha! I'm so sorry, but that made me laugh out loud. I kind of pictured what you and Chris must have looked like to attract such a comment. I pictured Chris wearing high-rise trousers and polished shoes with white tube socks, squinting at a book through his glasses, and you leaning against him with a hand on his knee, staring into space, dozing off a little, maybe with an afghan draped over your knees. And then I laughed, having pictured this. Hee!
Kate: Well, I was wearing a brown going-to-conferences blazer with dark jeans. And hikers, because my feet were sore. And I was looking really haggard that day, thanks to Putting Together IKEA Shelving Until After Midnight. For once, Chris wasn't wearing tube socks with polished shoes. Instead, he was wearing navy dress socks with runners.
I think that more of what attracted that comment was that I was clearly grumpy about her choice to flout Ferry Etiquette by taking up a laptop table ("These Tables Are For Guests With Computers Only") with her groceries, and then proceeding to sit elsewhere while talking on her cellphone. While we had to sit in airplane-style chairs, while balancing laptops on our knees. I was grumpy about that, and may have leaned over to Chris and said "She doesn't even have a computer! And she's not even sitting there!" She must have heard me. And was passive-aggressively fighting back by talking about us on her phone.
I'm curmudgeonly at a youngish age.
I heart curmudgeonly, middle-aged Mary. :)
p.s. that's probably the funniest thing I've heard today, especially considering how young you two are on the inside.
If you're "curmudgeonly at a youngish age" then so am I! And proud of it! My blog is full of curmudgeonliness right now. If thinking that rude and/or thoughtless behaviour ought to be smacked out of people at a young age is wrong, then I don't wanna be right.
I would have done the same thing as you, or perhaps gone further and just moved her bags to the floor and used the table myself. I have done similar things before. I just figure that I am not interested in having such thoughtless people like me, so I don't mind doing things that will make them not like me!
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