Which one will grow up to be a construction worker and which will be a NASA engineer?

[jedusor]

Today, as I was taking the trash out at work, a bunch of kids (little kids, maybe eight years old or so) were hanging around behind the store, biking and skateboarding on the Michaels delivery ramp. As I emptied the cardboard into the recycling dumpster, they started showing off, circling closer to me and popping wheelies and such. I ignored them. Eventually, they all left, and one of them hollered at me as he passed, "Bye, baby!" I've heard those words in that tone before, from creepy old homeless guys at Kansas City bus stops when I'm boarding the bus. The little shit pretty much eradicated all my faith in the society of tomorrow.

Then they all came back and resumed their antics, and one of the smaller ones came over and asked me, tentatively and to all appearances sincerely, whether I was a cyborg.

Faith restored. ^_^

Comments

[kohl-eyed.livejournal.com]

Aw. :D

[cramerica.livejournal.com]

Imagining you staring at boy #2 vacantly and intoning "Living tissue over metal endoskeleton."

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

And then hurling an enormous bag into the dumpster with no apparent effort. (We have a lot of Styrofoam trash.)

[gerald_duck]

And are you a cyborg?

[tablesaw]

You did say yes, right?

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

It was sufficiently unexpected that I didn't have time to react before his horrified friend dragged him away. (Apparently "Torture The Retail Worker" has some sort of rule about not actually engaging in conversation.)

But of course I was going to say yes.

[kaberett.livejournal.com]

Hah!

I just got "bitch!" yelled at me from a passing car for the first time that I can remember, so sympathy about the former case, too... *hug*

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

Eep! I've certainly been catcalled at, and there have been a few unintelligible comments I couldn't make out, but I don't think I've ever been outright insulted like that. *hugs* That must suck.

(There was the time when I was fourteen when I was out in public with my then-boyfriend and a passerby sniggered, "Dude, your girlfriend's fat." But I was more focused on the knife my boyfriend pulled out in response, that I didn't know he had, to worry about the random jerk.)

[elainetyger.livejournal.com]

I was angry at myself a few days ago when 2 laborers in the street insulted my looks in Spanish, and I responded "y tus madres," and they laughed, and I realized afterward I should have said "y vosotros madres tambien."

It's so hard to respond to these things in the moment.