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Writer's Block: The kindness of strangers
Feb. 24th, 2011 10:42 am[Error: unknown template qotd]
I'm really not insultable by strangers, since they don't know me at all and therefore have no idea what they're talking about.
The one time somebody tried, I wasn't walking. I was bicycling along a residential street not far from my house. Some teenaged boys (late teens, I'd say) were standing in a driveway and one of them said something to me that would have been insulting if it had come from a person I knew. I wish I could remember what he said.
I stopped, and asked, "What did you say?"
If he had decided to engage me in conversation, I would have pointed out that people who say insulting things to strangers usually do so from some sort of feeling of inadequacy, very likely the result of having a small penis. (Yes, I would have said that.)
In my mind, I pictured him getting pissed and his friends laughing because they knew it was true, from the locker room in gym class.
But that didn't happen. What did happen was they all went into the house without saying another word. I said, "chickenshit" and rode away thinking nope, not a little dick. No balls.
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I'm really not insultable by strangers, since they don't know me at all and therefore have no idea what they're talking about.
The one time somebody tried, I wasn't walking. I was bicycling along a residential street not far from my house. Some teenaged boys (late teens, I'd say) were standing in a driveway and one of them said something to me that would have been insulting if it had come from a person I knew. I wish I could remember what he said.
I stopped, and asked, "What did you say?"
If he had decided to engage me in conversation, I would have pointed out that people who say insulting things to strangers usually do so from some sort of feeling of inadequacy, very likely the result of having a small penis. (Yes, I would have said that.)
In my mind, I pictured him getting pissed and his friends laughing because they knew it was true, from the locker room in gym class.
But that didn't happen. What did happen was they all went into the house without saying another word. I said, "chickenshit" and rode away thinking nope, not a little dick. No balls.
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