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OHHHH, YOU SAID YOU WANTED TO ASK HER SOMETHING...way different than, where is the bathroom?
She probably thought you wanted to ask her out. DUH! Why would you ask a complete stranger you want to ask them something when you need to know where the bathroom is?
What? She's not some molly standing on a street corner, she's a museum employee. I ask, "Excuse me, may I ask you something" of store employees all the time.
What? She's not some molly standing on a street corner, she's a museum employee. I ask, "Excuse me, may I ask you something" of store employees all the time.
Most people just ask the actual question e.g. Excuse me, where's the women's section or furniture etc
This thread is so perplexing to me. I am female and sometimes when I meet someone new (male or female) a SO will come up fairly early in conversation regardless of the circumstances. I just think that if a person is a big part of someone's life, they come up early. It's the same thing with a person having kids. Usually if I meet someone and they have kids, I tend to hear about the kids pretty early on as well. I don't really think about it one way or another, but then again I don't tend to take offense at things.
I think the offensiveness (if that's what we can call it) some people may be experiencing is due to some treating a set of people differently than then would others, but in return are expecting to be treated no differently by others themselves.
It brings personal and general baises to the forefront (rightful or wrongful) and confuses those who may interact with around you as to you own motivations and intentions.
It is not simply that someone speaks of their spouses in general. the thread isn't about a natural conversation flow it was about people jumping to the end of the line with no ushering involved.
I think the offensiveness (if that's what we can call it) some people may be experiencing is due to some treating a set of people differently than then would others, but in return are expecting to be treated no differently by others themselves.
It brings personal and general baises to the forefront (rightful or wrongful) and confuses those who may interact with around you as to you own motivations and intentions.
It is not simply that someone speaks of their spouses in general. the thread isn't about a natural conversation flow it was about people jumping to the end of the line with no ushering involved.
Aaaaaand yet again.
So what???
What crimp is it putting in any dude's day that a woman he is speaking to "jumps to the end of the line" in error? ESPECIALLY if the guy has zero interest romantically in this silly, erroneous woman, why does it matter? At all? Ever?
Given that context - he wasn't flirting and has NO romantic interest (as he keeps swearing up and down) - how is this even a complaint?
The woman made a mistake - so? Did that mistake totally ruin the guy's day? Did it cost him his job? Did the police come and slap cuffs on him? Did legions of onlookers point and laugh? If not then why the hell is it so bothersome to the guy??? Because he's "treated differently"? Oh come on.
What crimp is it putting in any dude's day that a woman he is speaking to "jumps to the end of the line" in error? ESPECIALLY if the guy has zero interest romantically in this silly, erroneous woman, why does it matter? At all? Ever?
Given that context - he wasn't flirting and has NO romantic interest (as he keeps swearing up and down) - how is this even a complaint?
The woman made a mistake - so? Did that mistake totally ruin the guy's day? Did it cost him his job? Did the police come and slap cuffs on him? Did legions of onlookers point and laugh? If not then why the hell is it so bothersome to the guy??? Because he's "treated differently"? Oh come on.
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I think the offensiveness (if that's what we can call it) some people may be experiencing is due to some treating a set of people differently than then would others, but in return are expecting to be treated no differently by others themselves.
It brings personal and general baises to the forefront (rightful or wrongful) and confuses those who may interact with around you as to you own motivations and intentions.
It is not simply that someone speaks of their spouses in general. the thread isn't about a natural conversation flow it was about people jumping to the end of the line with no ushering involved.
THANK YOU!
Someone finally gets it!!!!
This. All. Day.
Christ almighty.
For a while, I thought I was typing in Klingon with the lack of comprehension from some of the people on this thread.
I guess that would be weird. But ... what the actually conversation(s) was/were is pretty hard to imagine.
Earlier I gave some examples, but here is one of the crazier conversations I had.
When working at the bookstore with the women who treated my good-looking male co-workers differently than me and the other less-attractive men, I once had this conversation when unloading some books about the Bush Administration's civil rights violations:
Me: Wow, Bush got away with destroying our privacy under the guise of security.
Woman: Yea, I don't understand why people allowed him to gain so much power.
Me: Mainly because when people are afraid, they'll let the government do whatever they like so as long as they continue feeling "safe."
Woman: My boyfriend didn't vote for Bush.
WTF?
This SAME woman talked to my actor co-workers all day and NEVER mentioned a boyfriend. Ever.
Now, this kind of thing happened with ME and my NOT-HOT-GUY co-workers.
The women mentioned boyfriends or SO with us, but never with the more attractive guys.
This is just one of many of these kinds of conversations. But women aren't shallow, women don't do anything wrong ever according to the ridiculous women on this thread.
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WTF?
This SAME woman talked to my actor co-workers all day and NEVER mentioned a boyfriend. Ever.
Now, this kind of thing happened with ME and my NOT-HOT-GUY co-workers.
The women mentioned boyfriends or SO with us, but never with the more attractive guys.
This is just one of many of these kinds of conversations. But women aren't shallow, women don't do anything wrong ever according to the ridiculous women on this thread.
I can't say I've ever had anything like that happen. Ever. Weird.
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