yeah. And I feel like I simply didn't do justice to how truly, truly awful these phone calls were. I felt aurally violated the shit this baoy talked.
Alarm bells were already jangling when I mentioned my dad's fam being very Irish-Catholic, and his huge dawning of comprehension, oooooh! so that's it!!! I don't like Jewish girls!
Then what the FUCK are you doing at a Jewish singles mixer? In the 21-31 year old age bracket? Eh, I made some other matches. And myspace is showering me with boys lately.
But apparently I'm also being painted as a not-Jewish fraud. What was the tip-off, the whole Jesus-is-in-my-name bit? My parents have a ketubah, and were married with a rabbi as well as a priest officiating. My grandpa's name is Ben Cohen. Matrilineality makes me good enough for anybody.
Eh, I suppose it's a good lesson to file away, in some fucked up way being all jew-cy with added shiksappeal is apparently an asset. Weird, weird. But for serious!
What do you MEAN, you didn't like him?! EVERYONE knows that you HAVE to like a guy with a HOT TUB!!!!
How awful - and awkward - I'm sorry he's nursing his bruised ego in such a childish way. So you two didn't hit it off - time to move on, Mr. Bubbles. *shudder*
I preface this by saying that I am an only child and that I grew up in a rural, small, midwestern town. I was raised [very] loosely Protestant, and didn't meet a Jewish person (to my knowledge) until I was 25
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Hi -- it's Erica from tremontstshul, I was browsing friends-of-bostonjews and hit this. I'm sorry you had a bad experience, but reading your spirited account of it makes me feel much worse for Mr. Hot Tub. ;-) (I should add that I actually have no idea who that would have been, but I'm just as glad not to know... unless it's a situation I should be keeping an eye on in future. We do get a certain number of "problem children" around Tremont St., we just have to rein them in as best we can, and step in with clue bats as needed.)
I know, it was mean-spirited, and I do feel bad, but I'm standing by it. In any case, I did go on a gorgeous date earlier this week with one of my "matches" which started on a phenomenal note when he showed up with one of those tiny 3-inch cakes from finale, and the rest of the evening stayed on par!! And I am guilty of bringing a shiksa (who spent the evening chatting with surplus girls and did not turn in a match-card), so it's probably karma. But my best friend, and she really needed me, and really needed to feel better about herself that day. If I hadn't already RSVPed, I would have taken her out to a bar to get hit on. It seemed like a good idea at the time
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In the interest of constructive feedback, and while I'm thinking about it, oddly enough the part of the story that most amuses and weirds people out was the format of the event: the whole being assigned a number and colored star and told to go left or right. Yeah. Which didn't strike me as odd at the time, but some people may be sensitive to it in future events...
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Alarm bells were already jangling when I mentioned my dad's fam being very Irish-Catholic, and his huge dawning of comprehension, oooooh! so that's it!!! I don't like Jewish girls!
Then what the FUCK are you doing at a Jewish singles mixer? In the 21-31 year old age bracket? Eh, I made some other matches. And myspace is showering me with boys lately.
But apparently I'm also being painted as a not-Jewish fraud. What was the tip-off, the whole Jesus-is-in-my-name bit? My parents have a ketubah, and were married with a rabbi as well as a priest officiating. My grandpa's name is Ben Cohen. Matrilineality makes me good enough for anybody.
Eh, I suppose it's a good lesson to file away, in some fucked up way being all jew-cy with added shiksappeal is apparently an asset. Weird, weird. But for serious!
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How awful - and awkward - I'm sorry he's nursing his bruised ego in such a childish way. So you two didn't hit it off - time to move on, Mr. Bubbles. *shudder*
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but i have this strange draw to it? and swear ive had dreams were im totally jewish and god..i should give up the dream
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Anyway, *waves*
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In the interest of constructive feedback, and while I'm thinking about it, oddly enough the part of the story that most amuses and weirds people out was the format of the event: the whole being assigned a number and colored star and told to go left or right. Yeah. Which didn't strike me as odd at the time, but some people may be sensitive to it in future events...
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