Posting Everyday in January Post

[baudown]

Things I heard today:


1. Best and worst compliment yelled to me on the street today:

Best (This requires a short explanation.  I have a lot of very curly hair, and I began going gray in my twenties.  And I know this sounds odd, but for some reason, people on the street are always saying things to me about my hair.  Like, at least once a day.  Often, the comments are from people who are overtly mentally ill, but not always.) So, back to the best compliment --"Hey, baby!  I dig that salt-and-puppy hair!"  Salt-and puppy.  I could not have been happier.

Worst -- "You must have been something, back in the day!"  Why not just yell, "You are old" at me instead?

2.  Most interesting question and answer heard at work today (I'm a lawyer, and I was watching a colleague who was trying a murder case)

      Question (by the prosecutor): "Did you consider the defendant to be a friend?"
      Answer (by the witness): "If by friend you mean, did we fuck hos together, then no."

3.  Best comment by a passenger in my car on a subway stuck at Columbus Circle (loudly, and in a thick West Indian accent):  "Columbus Circle is bullshit, mon!"

So, that was my day!  How was yours?

Comments

[velvetwhip.livejournal.com]

"Salt and puppy"? Awesome. As is the exchange between the prosecutor and the witness. But that comment about you being something "back in the day"? Uncalled for! And moronic! My PE coach in grade school was completely grey... and she was 22 years old.


Gabrielle

[baudown.livejournal.com]

I just had to laugh, because he actually thought he was being nice! Which raises the whole other issue of men yelling random crap to women on the street, and why they do it, and why they think it's okay...

[comlodge.livejournal.com]

Lol. A new definition of friendship for me, that's for sure. I've not been out today as yet so have no comments to share.

[comlodge.livejournal.com]

Oh and I always wanted to be grey. One of our best known actresses back when I was in my twenties was grey in her early years and she was so hot! Course I dye the shit out of my hair now and have since someone asked me if my son (born when I was forty) was my only grandchild!

[baudown.livejournal.com]

That was pretty much the reaction of everyone in the courtroom.

Re the gray hair -- I thought it was funny and cute when I was young, and by the time I was old enough to stop thinking it was cute, I figured it was too late to start dying.

[comlodge.livejournal.com]

I'm much to be vain to be grey. At the moment anyway. The bi monthly dying is a pain though. :D

[sparrow2000.livejournal.com]

Giggling at the 'salt and puppy' and the witness comment and the subway comment - all human life is there!

Ignore the idiot with the 'back in the day' - doesn't know a good thing when you are under his nose, stupid man.

I had the most ridiculous allergic reaction to something today (god knows what) and my left eye got all swollen. So I spent the day in an anti-histimine daze trying to remember what the hell I was supposed to be doing and looking like I'd gone 10 rounds with Mike Tyson - minus the ear biting. (Although I was so dopey I might not have noticed the ear biting...

[baudown.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm so sorry about your eye! Thanks for using your good one to read this. *g*

BTW, I've been reading drsquidlove's G/X non-stop -- New York, and Hands Down, which were both great.

Well, not exactly non-stop, because I'm currently in the middle of Te's Strays, which I thought was Spander, but really seems to be Xander/Everyone. And guh!

Hoping you feel better soon, hon.

[sparrow2000.livejournal.com]

Hee, we'll get you completely hooked on G/X before long. I have a pile I'm itching to introduce you to.

As for Strays, it's one of my all time comfort fics - which says a lot about me, but yeah, the boy gets around, but in the end it's all about Xander/Oz and it's gorgeous.

Eye has settled - I've had Friday night curry and wine and about the settle down whatever the PVR has captured! *g*