catalepsy
Student
- Sep 4, 2020
- 117
How on earth do people make so much smalltalk for so much of their day without flailing into awkward silences and going, "Uh, oh! Looks like someone's cutting the lawn over there. Bet that job sucks. Well, maybe not this time of year, I mean, it is nice out right now. Actually, now that I think about it, I bet that's an awesome job if it pays well, just not during the summer. Screw all that."
You know what I mean? God, I hate that crap. I always feel like there's this expected thing I'm supposed to be doing, a part I'm supposed to be playing maybe? Like, driving home from work with a friend, she turns and gives me this look like she was waiting for me to say something, and I have no idea what on earth she wants to hear at 4am on a Thursday on a small country road with nothing interesting in the vicinity but us. "Oh ha, yeah, those earrings look nice." "What?" "Uh.. Oh. So, uhm, how are you?" "Didn't you ask me that a minute ago?" "Oh right."Well, just feck off you weird empty form of human socialization and communication. Can't we just get rid of this whole convention and replace it with noodle fighting? The one person would start by producing a noodle and whacking the other person, and the other person would, without acknowledging the whack given by the first person, produce a second noodle, then proceed to whack the first person with it. They would take turns whacking each other off until they reached their destination, or the one defeated the other by pure noodly dominance. I don't know. Jesus, it just seems more sensible than what most of our verbiage consists of.
I've had such a weird week I'm not even sure what I'm doing anymore. I'm out of my mind and totally bored at the same time. I suppose you'd call that ambivalent, but I can't tell the difference between it and overstimulation, or overstimulation and being unconscious. I'd rather be unconscious, or at the very least drunk, but I have to work tonight and can't afford to feel all groggy later today. This sucks.
You know what I mean? God, I hate that crap. I always feel like there's this expected thing I'm supposed to be doing, a part I'm supposed to be playing maybe? Like, driving home from work with a friend, she turns and gives me this look like she was waiting for me to say something, and I have no idea what on earth she wants to hear at 4am on a Thursday on a small country road with nothing interesting in the vicinity but us. "Oh ha, yeah, those earrings look nice." "What?" "Uh.. Oh. So, uhm, how are you?" "Didn't you ask me that a minute ago?" "Oh right."Well, just feck off you weird empty form of human socialization and communication. Can't we just get rid of this whole convention and replace it with noodle fighting? The one person would start by producing a noodle and whacking the other person, and the other person would, without acknowledging the whack given by the first person, produce a second noodle, then proceed to whack the first person with it. They would take turns whacking each other off until they reached their destination, or the one defeated the other by pure noodly dominance. I don't know. Jesus, it just seems more sensible than what most of our verbiage consists of.
I've had such a weird week I'm not even sure what I'm doing anymore. I'm out of my mind and totally bored at the same time. I suppose you'd call that ambivalent, but I can't tell the difference between it and overstimulation, or overstimulation and being unconscious. I'd rather be unconscious, or at the very least drunk, but I have to work tonight and can't afford to feel all groggy later today. This sucks.
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