In an elevator with Mr. Cash
For my birthday this year Spockette gave me a bag with Johnny Cash on it, I carry it a lot. It is the perfect size and fits all of my crap. Coming down the elevator at my shrinks office one Friday a man standing next to me started to chuckle and then said who is that on your bag. Johnny Cash I replied in a curt voice.
Really, that is Johnny Cash, are you a fan, do you listen to him? [No, I just carry a bag with his image on it] He asked me this as he gave me the full up and down pervert look, so as I answered yes I lifted my left hand displaying my wedding band while I pretended to scratch my head hoping he would see it and realize how obvious I was being and stop talking to me. Nope.
The elevator stopped at the bottom and I went to step off when I heard him still talking to me as I walked off, that Johnny Cash he said, I love him, great songs, he has great lyrics, that Walk the Line song. I never looked at him in the face I just nodded and gave a little unhuh.
Really? So you LOVE Johnny Cash but you don’t recognize one of his most infamous photos, [distorted in the picture I took of my bag] and you obviously are not that familiar with his music when you say something like ‘that Walk the Line song’. Sounds to me like he just saw the movie.
‘YOU CAN’T WALK NO LINE!’
I have not fixed all of my archives or categories yet since I moved over to Word Press so I have no idea where my awesome elevator story where some dude was all ARE THOSE MANOLOS to me when I had one of my many pairs of awesome shoes on- they weren’t cheap but they weren’t Manolos. Because I don’t work down town anymore I am not in many elevators which means I normally get to avoid this huge pet peeve of random men/people talking to me but it still happens.
Keira-Anne did a post called ‘The Ten Commandments’ last week mentioning random strangers talking to her as well, I know it is common but seriously does any man really believe he can pick up a women in an elevator? And do you honestly think I want your opinion on anything be it the weather, my shoes, you may just be a friendly person but I, unless I know you or want to know you am generally not. That isn’t 100% true though because I get asked for directions a lot, confuses me greatly because I don’t see myself as approachable but there must be something about me, I don’t know, but I am always nice to people who ask me for directions. And when I am on the sea wall running I do the head nod, half smile at the runners so maybe I am not all bad. I guess when it comes right down to it, it is just certain situations and ’scenes’ in the city that make me go instant ice queen.
July 25th, 2007 at 12:50 pm
I get alot of men asking “Hey, don’t I know you?” NO I DON’T KNOW YOU LEAVE ME ALONE!!!! How does any man expect me to take him seriously when he approaches me on the street or in a mall??
July 25th, 2007 at 1:52 pm
i have gotten a lot of “hey momma”s. from creepy older men. and it’s never said to the tune of a black eyed peas song, so it neither makes me shake my rump or reply with much more than an eyeroll. i’m neither nice or polite to THOSE men, i consider them total ‘tards, to think that a girl walking with a baby in a stroller will instantly stop, have a conversation and maybe run away to vegas with them.
keep taking the viagra, guys.
July 25th, 2007 at 3:35 pm
I’m sorry it’s so irritating to you, C. I never get flirted with, so I’m a little jealous - in theory. In practise, I’d rather not have idiots chatting me up.
July 26th, 2007 at 12:48 am
I only ever get flirted with by older men, and usually old older men. Old usually equals creepy…
July 26th, 2007 at 5:26 am
CASH ROCKS!!
If my name wasn’t so cool i’d be a boy named Sue!
Probably not actually.
July 26th, 2007 at 9:22 am
You are all kinds of awesomeness.
July 26th, 2007 at 6:57 pm
I’ve been plagued with by awkward teenaged guys giving me looks that they think are subtle and attractive lately. It’s irritating and sad at the same time.
July 27th, 2007 at 8:19 am
this should be called the 23 dollar blog.
July 29th, 2007 at 11:52 am
I bought a Johnny Cash album once when I was in college, before it was cool (again) to like him and was mercilessly ribbed for it. I remember when no record company would sign him to their label. So I was a fan in the lean years.
It’s amazing (but wonderful) to know that he’s cool again. But to me, he always was.
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maja: I’m old, but not too old. Creepy, but not too creepy. Still, I hate that every time I attempt to talk with ANY WOMAN under the age of 35, she assumes I’m hitting on her. Which I’m not.
July 29th, 2007 at 12:05 pm
i’ll admit i was not a Cash fan growing up. my parents didn’t listen to him…hence my love of john denver, gordon lightfoot….i dare to go on. but once i started to work in music which was back in 1995 i discovered him and have grown into a bigger fan over the years.
i am sure that not every guy that talks to me is hitting on me but i have definitely been guilty of thinking that before.