Thursday, August 12, 2010

What's the deal?

I think that I should start a blog that's centred primarily on conversations I keep having with random men while I'm walking down the street. Take that back, because they're not even conversations! They're always awkward comments directed at me, while I'm passing by on my way somewhere, comments that have little room for a proper response.
Today's case in point:
I was returning from running some errands, and was standing at the corner waiting to cross. There was a man there, who looked at me and said, "Wow! Beautiful women are right here! Hey there!" I tried to catch the eye of the woman standing next to me waiting for the light to change, but she had headphones on. So I just ignored it and walked home. Two hours later, I was back out to pick up some things, and happened to be on the same side of the street. I should have dodged over to the other side, but it's busy, and he saw me before I knew what was going on. He past me and encouraged me not to pay a lot of money to marry rich, because I'm apparently so beautiful I don't need to marry for money. What does that mean?! My first thought was that perhaps he's read a lot of Jane Austen books. My second thought was that these encounters have been so much more common over here than back home, and I don't know why! Besides Lady Gaga man from the hostel who told me that he wanted to "kiss my accent", no one knows that I'm a foreigner before they make those comments or give those looks (shudder). My hair is poofier and crazier over here because of the rain, I wear the same stuff that I always have, and most of the time I'm trying so hard to figure out where I'm going that I'm bumping into things/people and looking quite clumsy. No wonder I like that Lily Allen song so much.

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