Conversations with co-workers, part eleventy

[cupcake_goth]

Co-worker: "Oh hey, I've been meaning to ask you ..."

Me: "Yesss?"

Co-worker: "The guys who made The Matrix movies. They're Goths, right? 'Cos of the long black jackets, and the sunglasses, and ..." (trails off into silence for a minute) " ... and the weird people ..."

Me: "I don't think they'd consider themselves Goths. They are big ol' gamers and comic fans, and there is a bit of cross-over between all those things."

Co-worker: "Oh. Okay. I wondered."

I managed not to giggle during this exchange. Poor clueless co-worker.

Comments

[oldhalloween.livejournal.com]

You didn't teach him/her the secret Goth handshake? :::shaking head:::::

[djeternaldarkne.livejournal.com]

HOW did you manage not to giggle is my question. Lord knows I would have...

[ro-astarte.livejournal.com]

I'll giggle.

Princess Moonbeam, expanding vanilla horizons one at a time.

[sistawendy.livejournal.com]

Sunglasses.
Weird people.

I would have had to resort to a trick I learned from a navy vet friend of mine: stabbing oneself in the thigh with a pen.

[stroppy-baggage.livejournal.com]

Actually, I think my politeness filter would have burnt clean out...

"So, do you think priests are goths? A lot of them like to wear black."

or

"If a subculture can be accurately summed up by just a color, that subculture is fucked."

I don't know, maybe I'm grumpy. Maybe I'd have handed him a clue and sent him on his big dumbass way...

*quirk*

[ouranophobe.livejournal.com]

maybe you're grumpy?

*giggle*

Re: *quirk*

[stroppy-baggage.livejournal.com]

Hush you.

[mahariel.livejournal.com]

Hehehe. I don't get to inflict my wardrobe on my coworkers anymore. Even if we didn't have crappy uniforms to wear, I'd be too worried about ruining my nice stuff. But I do get to infect them with my music. Small consolation, but it still has its moments.

-Victoria