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Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Overheard in Remote Community

I had a fun day of eavesdropping in Conference Country. First, I was planning my day at the hostel while the teenage girls who worked there were complaining about how a boy they knew always tries too hard to be different. They were particularly annoyed by his claim to be bisexual, since they'd never known him to actually date a boy, and besides, "everyone wants a commitment, eventually, so nobody can be bi forever. You have to choose." Clearly, anyone who's bisexual is just indecisive.

Then I got a bus, that turned out to also be the school bus. Two boys behind me seemed to be playing some kind of role playing game, or just testing each other to ensure they would be prepared for when similar situations arose in real life:

"You're sitting in your lounge room and a girl knocks on the door, what do you do?"
"Ask her to come in"
"Okay, she comes in and starts taking off her clothes. She goes into the shower and says she'll be out in 5 minutes. It's 5 minutes later; what do you do?"
"Go in"
"Okay, you open the door and she says "I'll be out in a minute". What do you do?"
"I say, "no need to come out, because I'm coming in!""
"Oh! Good answer!"

They continued like this until an older woman got on and sat across the aisle from me. I'm assuming she was known to them, because they muttered disgustedly about their fun being ruined and moved further back where they wouldn't be overheard.

1 Comments:

At 12:31 AM, Blogger DrOtter said...

That's funny. So teenage boys are the same the whole world over!

 

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