Friday, September 19, 2008

Slightly nauseous musing

Though I might just be hungry.

  • As Ike was attacking the oil rigs of the Gulf of Mexico, I wondered where the conservatives who claim to know what God is thinking were with their Voices of the Lord. If Katrina was punishment for New Orleans' wanton ways, who was He punishing this time?

  • Has Palin struck anyone as a younger, less qualified, girlified Cheney?

  • Can I have a dollar?

  • This guy on Match IMed me out of the blue by guessing that my screen name might be the same as my AOL address (which I usually try to erase from the Match e-mails but forget to do as time goes on). I should've just blocked/declined the IM, but I didn't, thinking it was Mark under a different screen name. Am I wrong in feeling it was rude or at least presumptuous of him? Like calling someone when they never gave you their phone number? I felt very put on the spot. After a few minutes I bailed and haven't heard from him since. No apologies for making me uncomfortable, which I clearly was, either. In fact I think he claimed cleverness in his deduction. He's well out of my age range, but this is the one case where that struck me as irrelevant. But I'd have expected someone 51 to have better manners.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

i have probably been guilty of the last thing.
thinking it was clever on my part.
i'm a researcher at heart though.

and like anything else, if attractive for whatever reason-humor, looks, what have one, would have been labelled as initiative.

when a store clerk got my phone number off a check once, i did feel like he was creepy for doing so though. i wasn't in the lease bit attracted to him.