“why, thank you (ma’am)”
Posted: January 25th, 2006 | Author: Jeff | Filed under: Uncategorized | 3 Comments »Yesterday, a coworker wrote on my dry-erase board:
“You are weird”.
Which was quite amusing because she’s gotta be like 8th female to have told me that in the past couple years. The only pattern I see is that they tend to say this after I make a remark or joke that they just don’t get. Puzzled, they’re faced with a choice to either 1) just give you a weird look and say nothing, 2) fake a laugh, or 3) say something along the lines of “you are weird”, which is not as awkward as 1) and 2).
Maybe one day, I’ll date someone who makes a similar comment(I dunno, maybe the 21st girl who says this?) and hopefully I can get her to spill the beans on the thought process behind those words. You can learn so much about human behavior that way.
Then again, another characterization I get, among other things, is that I “think too much.”
Pretty cool, eh?
Honestly, I never took “weird” as a compliment.
But then again, I never took “nice” as a compliment either.
and then again, I neither did I take “smart” or “witty”.
Probably because I want to be something else, something different than normal and weird. Like, different, but different in a better way than imaginable. yes. Yes… that is it.
such an immature response.
I think “weird” is as overused as “interesting” to describe anything that isn’t ordinary or obvious. If something is apparent to all parties, then why would someone say anything about it such as ’something or someone is weird’? Going by this logic then, if someone says something is “weird”, can that be a ‘tell’? It’s like how some make random comments, but they’re not really random (may seem a bit out of place or unexpected from others perspectives, but most likelyw as triggered by something).
J