Genevieve Valentine ([info]glvalentine) wrote,
@ 2008-05-03 19:56:00
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Entry tags:eesh, no seriously, o rly, tango

Other people need more shame.
[Scene: a tango practica. GENEVIEVE is approached by PUSHY TANGO WOMAN, who rubbed intimate parts all over Genevieve the only time Genevieve made the mistake of dancing with her. PTW is known for approaching leaders and demanding they dance with her. It usually works.]

PTW: Are you going to lead me?
G: Oh! Well, I have my street shoes on, I was on my way out.
PTW: Let me ask you - do you just not want to dance with me any more? Because I've asked you, like, twelve times in the last year and you always say no. Is it that you don't want to dance with me any more?

[GENEVIEVE dies inside that someone is so unable to get a clue.]

G: [trying to allow PTW some dignity] I just usually dance with friends.
PTW: Well, I'm your friend, and I REALLY liked dancing with you. Just tell me you don't want to dance with me! I'm asking!
G: I usually prefer to dance with my friends, I'm sorry.
PTW: Fine!

[PTW suddenly morphs into Glenn Close.]

PTW: ...we're still friends.
G: ...
PTW: Well, goodbye.

[PTW sits down, stares directly at Genevieve.]

[Fin.]

I should feel creeped out, but instead I am just MORTIFIED that someone is so unable to read a room that after 12 "No"s she's still trying for "Yes".

Other people need more shame. It would spare me being ashamed on their behalf.


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[info]andrewkaye
2008-05-04 01:20 am UTC (link)
I was going to make a comment about intimate parts, but I decided against it. Thank my self control.

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[info]glvalentine
2008-05-04 01:32 am UTC (link)
Oh god, I'm thanking it. You are never ever allowed to comment on intimate parts.

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[info]saoba
2008-05-04 01:36 am UTC (link)
Ugh.

Some people are so spectacularly clueless they could not capture a clue if they smeared themselves with Eau de Clue and walked through a clue herd during clue breeding season.

As an observable phenomenon, from a distance, it is actually mostly just sad. Face to face, it's weird.

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[info]glvalentine
2008-05-04 02:23 am UTC (link)
It is PAINFUL up close. I was so taken aback that I was at a loss for words for about an hour after it happened. It was like watching an antelope die of starvation.

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[info]squirrel_monkey
2008-05-04 01:47 am UTC (link)
I'm going to make a point of cornering you and demanding that you teach me tango at Wiscon.

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[info]glvalentine
2008-05-04 02:27 am UTC (link)
Not the same! You'd have to ask me ALL THE TIME, I would have to say no, and then you'd have to loudly and publicly corner me and question me about it.

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[info]squirrel_monkey
2008-05-04 04:17 am UTC (link)
When do I... oh, never MIND.

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[info]glvalentine
2008-05-04 04:09 pm UTC (link)
HAHA, see, it's really hard to be shameless! Most people are too busy to be shameless!

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[info]pantlessjohnny
2008-05-04 04:00 am UTC (link)
Do they bus in the emotional cripples or do they arrive of their own accord?

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[info]glvalentine
2008-05-04 04:10 pm UTC (link)
I'd say six of one, half-dozen of the other. But even if you barred them they would still find a way to return, like the swallows at Capistrano.

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