wow. ...really wanted to say something about my day. you know, sort of force a record out there.
herewith, snippets:
freaked out students.
some sort of eighth-grader conference (i think i saw an id badge that said "history day"), so the whole campus -- but most notably, my bus -- swarmed with the giggling class and their protective chaperones.
a metro train in which a maintenance man was standing, no, straddling two cars, with the inter-car doors open and air rushing into the car. as soon as he closed the doors, the lights went out for at least a minute (in a tunnel). they do that in nyc, not in dc.
overheard conversation on a montgomery county rideon bus: "sh*t! motherf*cker can't be getting a job and sh*t if he be a convicted felon. he gots to go into bidness fo' himself and sh*t. that's what i did. f*ck working for no g*dam white man. what if you go to hell, and you been working for a white man? g*dam that's some sh*t."
and the neighbors are jackhammering their driveway.
that's some sh*t.
Posted by dave at June 16, 2003 8:27 PM | TrackBackI'm glad those * are there. It's like breaking a code. ;)
I think "Skills, Mad Skills, Aptitudes" surpasses *-man. Clearly the quality of public transportation humor is slipping.
Posted by: Jason at June 17, 2003 7:18 AM | Permalink to Commenti couldn't agree more. "mad skills and aptitudes" had clearly worked out his discourse before sharing with the bus. *-man's halting reliance on expletives belies an unwillingness to develop and to polish one's contribution to the larger conversation.
and i left out his treatise on gender relations. as i'm sure you might surmise, women occupy a compelling place in *-man's sexual politics.
Posted by: dave at June 17, 2003 8:29 AM | Permalink to Comment