I just saw this happen:
A car gets to an intersection and stops at the stop sign. The car then edges forward around the corner, so that the driver can look to see if anyone is coming before turning. The street the car is turning onto is pretty busy, so the car is sitting there a little while. It's in the crosswalk. A pedestrian starts crossing the street, and walks into the side of the car. He looks startled, like, "How did that thing get there?" He takes two big steps backwards, then tries walking forward again, but the car has not magically vanished, and he walks into it again. He stops and thinks for a moment, and finally realizes that this might work better if he walked AROUND the car. I was the next car behind that one waiting to turn the corner, and I could not stop laughing.
On the second impact, if I was the driver, I might start thinking, "Zombie?"
The person interviewing me was a big proponent of the rock bonding class.
Hmpf. He shouldn't have asked "What do you think about X?" if he wasn't prepared to hear "I didn't like X and here's why." It's an interview question, not an ego-stroking opportunity. I mean, I get why it was embarrassing, but he kinda set you, and himself, up for it.
zombie isn't a bad thought
Nah, she wasn't overly defensive about it at all, and seemed okay with my point-of-view, it was just awkward.
The person interviewing me was a big proponent of the rock bonding class.
That's just guacamole entrapment.
it was just awkward.
It may have been awkward, but better awkwardness in an interview than further bonding with a rock.
That's just guacamole entrapment.
Heh! And pretty much a comment only made or understandable by Buffistas.
I am in an argument with college-aged boys (that I know) on a log post of a colleged aged girl (that I know) about men talking to random women on the street. And they are such nice, polite young men, and they are writing paragraphs long defenses of men's rights to talk to women on the street and "not all men are like that" and "you need to be nicer or men and women won't get along" and "you are contributing to the women's fear of men by posting this" and "sorry, I won't ask you for directions, because you will kick me n the balls".
And why I tried to explain that it wasn't just about their "right" to talk to a pretty girl but a systemic, unplanned, unnoticeable to them way that men take up space and women can't, I have no idea...
OMG, shrift. That's what it was.
