Comments | blonde222: My bad

blonde222

My bad

Mar 28, 2008 22:15

Two completely different guy stories for you today

1) I had to ring up the company who stripped and varnished my wooden floors this morning, to talk to them about the rodent problem. Given it's been years since I had my floors done, the man who answered the phone seemed to have an unhealthy recollection of my apartment, including the precise ( Read more... )

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nicnac March 28 2008, 23:19:19 UTC

He seemed OK on email. But on film he is so awful that I don't want to respond to anything more he has to say. He, of course, claims that it is all bunkum and he was woefully misrepresented. I am incapable, however, of believing anything other than what I see on film.

Errr... whaaaa? *head explodes*

blonde222 March 29 2008, 02:36:54 UTC

If it's a movie, it must be true.

(I admit it's very surreal)

f4f3 March 29 2008, 00:59:42 UTC

Re 2: Whaaaaaaat?

blonde222 March 29 2008, 02:38:01 UTC

see above.

psychochicken March 29 2008, 10:10:59 UTC

The world you live in fascinates and terrifies me in equal measure....

blonde222 March 29 2008, 16:50:47 UTC

really? It mainly just perplexes me. I mean, just what is the polite way to behave in these circs?

fiendish_cat March 30 2008, 10:08:18 UTC

Wow.

Is it wrong that my second thought* is 'what sport was he champion in' and 'what did he do that was so villainous'?

*First thought was 'run, Blonde222, run away from them fast'. Third thought was 'how on earth has it come about that he's been emailing you'?

blonde222 March 30 2008, 15:39:48 UTC

Won the worlds rowing, and was favourite for Olympic gold two years later until the other guy in his boat got some kind of lurgy the week before and couldn't row. The villainy was, as you may recall, his role in the events of the Oxford Boat Race mutiny, which I think happened the year between the worlds and the Olympics.

How do I "know" him? A former professor of mine from b-school knows him (long story, but it indirectly involves me) and "connected" us because she thought we had a lot in common. On reflection she now regrets doing this I think, because he is married and 14 years older than me, which she neglected to mention at the time. Anyway, at first I corresponded with him a bit out of curiousity: was he really as bad as portrayed? But then he found my photograph on LinkedIn. And since then he's been emailing me all the time. Which kind of bears out your original reaction of Run For The Hills.

That is the story, make of it what you will.