Muni Memories #3
The F Market
I had just come out of a job interview and was riding the streetcar home. I was lost in thought, replaying the interview in my mind, when two young girls got on board and sat directly behind me. It took me a few minutes to pull myself out of my head as I came to the realization that their conversation was much more entertaining than the critical analysis of my interview performance.
The thing that really got my attention was their speech that seamlessly integrated text-message acronyms. This is where my attention joined their verbal exchange:
“I don’t even say anything to them, I just LOL them. They’ll like be talking to me and I just LOL ‘em without saying a thing. Just LOL, LOL!”
“I know… OMG Sean totally tried to hook up with me the other day!”
“Nuh uh… Little Sean? OMG what did you do?”
“I was just like, ‘But we’re friends,’ and he was all, ‘But we can be friends with benefits!’ and I was like, ‘Benefits! Please…’ …ugly little freak!”
“He’s hella ugly! And totally twelve.”
“...and a druggie. I mean, five pills? OMG!”
“And a young druggie is way worse than an old druggie.”
OK, I guess it also shocked me a little to hear "sex," "drugs," and "twelve" mixed so casually into their conversation. And though I'm really not one to get shocked by anything, and that may appear to make me a little bit old. The truth is, it really just made them look really young and pretty damn ridiculous.
Stay in school, kids! (And I mean "school" metaphorically...)
I had just come out of a job interview and was riding the streetcar home. I was lost in thought, replaying the interview in my mind, when two young girls got on board and sat directly behind me. It took me a few minutes to pull myself out of my head as I came to the realization that their conversation was much more entertaining than the critical analysis of my interview performance.The thing that really got my attention was their speech that seamlessly integrated text-message acronyms. This is where my attention joined their verbal exchange:
“I don’t even say anything to them, I just LOL them. They’ll like be talking to me and I just LOL ‘em without saying a thing. Just LOL, LOL!”
“I know… OMG Sean totally tried to hook up with me the other day!”
“Nuh uh… Little Sean? OMG what did you do?”
“I was just like, ‘But we’re friends,’ and he was all, ‘But we can be friends with benefits!’ and I was like, ‘Benefits! Please…’ …ugly little freak!”
“He’s hella ugly! And totally twelve.”
“...and a druggie. I mean, five pills? OMG!”
“And a young druggie is way worse than an old druggie.”
OK, I guess it also shocked me a little to hear "sex," "drugs," and "twelve" mixed so casually into their conversation. And though I'm really not one to get shocked by anything, and that may appear to make me a little bit old. The truth is, it really just made them look really young and pretty damn ridiculous.
Stay in school, kids! (And I mean "school" metaphorically...)
