the four right chords can make me cry

Tony Parsons, Man and Boy, page 95

"Apart from the low wages, unsociable hours and lack of standard employee benefits such as medical insurance, probalbly the worst thing about being a waitress is that in the course of her work she has to deal with a lot of creeps.
Like a little apron and a notepad, creeps come with the job. Men who want to talk to her, men who ask her for her number, men who just refuse to leave her alone. Creeps, the lot of them.
Creeps from building sites, creeps from office blocks, creeps in business suits, creeps with their bum crack displayed above the back of their jeans, creeps of every kind - the ones who think they're funny, the onew who think they're God's gift, the ones who think that just because she brings them the soup of the day, they're in with a chance."

Encountered my first creep today. This weird looking bugger at table 9. Just the way he looked at me... leering... so gross. and when he asked me to clear the plates or something, he addressed me by "beautiful". seriously grossed out, felt partially violated. cant really explain how it felt, you wont know it until someone does that to you. but take my word for it that it is horrible. and then on the bus ride home, tony parsons assures me that its normal. if it were a good thing, id get a chance to use the word serendipidous.

Good thing im not that chio so things like this probably wont be happening too often. Cant imagine what it must be like for you mandy! Good thing for the guys too cos i will break their arms off if they tried anything funny. and throw chilli powder in their face. and break plates on their heads. and...

hmmm that didnt make me sound very feminine did it. was supposed to be more gentle this year. but hey, being a girl doesnt mean taking crap from creeps. and this girl aint taking no crap from no creep.

posted by beckyboo @ 11:17 PM