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May 11, 2006
I'm very approachable lately
I got my haircut yesterday afternoon, and right after that I went to the gym. Two muscular guys stop to talk to me for 20 minutes. Then on the way home three different people ask me for directions. The new 'do makes me either totally hot or totally approachable. I can share the name of the person who does my hair.
I often wonder if I've been genetically engineered to always work for visitor services due to this inherent approachability. Maybe it's the whole young Kris Kringle look I'm workin' at the moment - everyone wants to sit on my lap and ask me questions or tell me things.
Crazy people also find me approachable. Luckily I have a good time talking with schitzophrenics and with their friends inside their head. This morning on the shuttle ride to work the woman next to me began doing coreographed hand and shoulder motions, interspersed with broken phrases. I'm not sure whether it was Tourette's or crack. It could have been both. By the end of my ride she had taken out her hand mirror and was showing it to me, or was showing my reflection to me. I smiled and got off at my stop.
The Unclean are at ease around me too. There is a person on my floor at work with whom I am synchronized with. We are always in the restroom at the same time. Sadly, he does not always follow good potty etiquette (Thanks to Dale from DC Gays of Our Lives). He washes his feet in the sink and blows his snot in the sink too - not always in that order. I suppose he feels comfortable doing that around me since I'm so approachable. I want to design a porcelain foot doucher just for him some day.
Posted by jimbo at May 11, 2006 4:43 PM
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Alright, let's see a picture of the new 'do.
Posted by: homer at May 11, 2006 6:13 PM
It's no different than any other 'do, I swear!
Posted by: jimbo at May 11, 2006 7:14 PM
eewwww. He washes his feet in the sink. I am sitting here wondering just what would be the occasion that someone would need to wash his feet at work. Refreshing his fungus? If he is such a slob in the restroom, can you imagine what his bathroom looks like at home? Again...eewwwww.
Posted by: fstclss at May 12, 2006 1:11 AM
I too am often stopped and asked for directions when in downtown DC. Perhaps tourists think that our Gaydar comes equipped with a GPS option.
Posted by: Herb at May 12, 2006 7:19 AM
See that's why i avoid the city because i have the same affect on them. I think it's genetics.
Posted by: Tim at May 12, 2006 10:17 AM
I need your barber's address. It may be worth the trip down from NY.
I seem to strike fear into the hearts of most people. Perhaps a new haircut would help.
Posted by: Mark at May 12, 2006 10:19 AM
I'm sure they DO want to sit on your lap.
Posted by: sam at May 12, 2006 11:34 AM
I am amazed at what strangers are willing to share with me in public venues. maybe that helps me be a good therapist. but I am constantly having people report therapeutic issues in the most inappropriate places. I have had no fewer than 8 men disclose being the victim of same-sex partner abuse in bars. 3 of them within very close proximity to their abusive partners. "um - sorry to hear that you are dealing with that. there are services that cna help. here is the phone number. and maybe when you get away from the abuse you can begin to work on boundary issues." dudes - I am at a bar to drink and have fun. not to work.
sounds like bathroom etiquette guy has some boundary issues of his own.
Posted by: WindReader at May 12, 2006 11:40 AM
Washing feet in the sink is a crime only punishable by death.
I also seem to scare people on a regular basis... there will be no asking Dale for directions apparently.
Posted by: Dale at May 12, 2006 11:49 AM
Jimbo not repelling kindly strangers? If that's not one of the horsemen of the apocolypse, then what is?
As one who once sensed this feeling from Jimbo, I will determine if it's the 'do, the weather, or a new you.
Posted by: copperred at May 12, 2006 3:07 PM
Can we have a picture of this eminently approachable hair sculpture?
Daniel
Posted by: Daniel at May 15, 2006 7:47 PM