Straight into the Wall
At Tosci’s tonight, I overheard a guy say this to his date.
“I used to watch a lot of movies, but now I mostly listen to NPR.”
That brought my head right around. At a table by the wall, a bro-stereotype straight out of a Mountain Dew-Halo ad sat across from a cute, brown-haired girl who seemed to be saying little. A few minutes later:
“Oh, I guess you’re really liberal, huh? Ha-ha.” The girl was wearing a stony expression. An awkward moment. “My mom’s a Democrat.”
Lol, what the eff? Did the girl say anything?
No, the guy was a pea-wit and a conversation-hog. She was soft-spoken, but she didn’t have many places to speak.
D’oh!
Who replaces movies with NPR? That’s like comparing apples to truck tires. Does not compute.
Nobody, but this guy thinks smart, interesting people do. It was endearingly lame, though possibly not to his date.
In this guy’s defense, I both listen to NPR and watch movies at my computer. So for me, they’re substitution goods.
This guy, though, sounds like he’s trying _way_ too hard…