Off the Clock

[zingerella]

 After work I took the Tiny Perfect Bike up to a friend’s place to pick something up. I’d not been to this friend’s place before, and I needed to stop and check the address on my phone, so I pulled up onto the sidewalk to check my phone. A fellow was standing outside the pub in front of which I pulled up, having a smoke. As I checked my phone, he

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[audrawilliams]

WOW. I am so furious on your behalf!

[zingerella]

Awww, thanks. I'm not really angry. I mean, whatever. I like my bike a lot. I like cycling. This person felt that he needed to make my day worse and really just demonstrated that he's a pathetic, sad, useless excuse for a human being. I mean, he wasn't even good at making me feel bad! How sad is that?

[dagibbs]

I can say, only, gah!

[roadnotes]

I think it's in the Sturgeon story, "The Other Man," that someone says, "So you can run a mile faster than Einstein." There are people like that on the planet, and I feel sorry for them.

[raincitygirl]

Oh yuck, what an asshole!

[littlegirltoast]

do you think there's any chance it was rom-com damage, and he thought addressing you that way would ignite some kind of spark between you? like he just doesn't know (a) how to be playful, or (b) whom not to be playful with?

or was it sheer, genuine malice?

I'm sure you're right to have him not ruin your day, but the idea of him shakes me up because his entitlement is so evident, it leads me to consider the outcomes if the same entitlement were to be displayed by an even slightly more malign figure.

shudder.

[curgoth]

My first thought was that dude had been to a PUA (pick up artist) seminar; apparently one of the tricks to make women sleep with you is to mock them and make them feel insecure before they are wowed by your confident skeeziness.

[curgoth]

Negging! Right! I had forgotten the term. As in "Dude, negging is not going to get you laid here. Move along."