Comments on: IMing with my sister

By: styleygeek

styleygeek — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 23:39:30 +0000

Geekman got teased mercilessly the other night when we were visiting friends and he asked “What’s the E.T.A. on dinner?” Apparently that isn’t *normal* either.

And I was known all through high-school as “interchangeable girl” because I asked in a third form German class whether two words we were given for the one concept were “interchangeable”, and apparently that isn’t normal English when you’re 13.

Sometimes I hate people.

By: sheepish

sheepish — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 00:34:27 +0000

Is she complaining because you didn’t capitalize your sentence?

By: wolfa

wolfa — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 01:06:28 +0000

FUCK OFF, SHEEPISH. See, capital letters. Better?

Actually, she has a fine vocabulary, most of the time, but she likes to pretend otherwise. Maybe she doesn’t know the word inadvisable, but generally she knows the weird words that our family is wont to use.

She is, in fact, 13.

By: sheepish

sheepish — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 01:42:59 +0000

It is hard to imagine that the same family environment that produced you would produce someone with an infinitesimal vocabulary.

And that cracked me up; thanks for the laugh.

By: wolfa

wolfa — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 01:46:50 +0000

Well, my *other* sister — actually, I think she knows the words, too, but pretends otherwise. This sister I think is in the “pretend to be stupid/ignorant in order to be cool” phase.

Bear in mind, though, that we do not share biological backgrounds, and I alone of my siblings am a bookworm.

By: Cougar Allen

Cougar Allen — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 17:08:45 +0000

Well, what should you have said?

“Um, like, um, that would be, like, so totally blonde. Hello?”

Or maybe …

“Oh my god! Have you changed the air in your head lately? Oh my god!”

Or maybe …

“Riiiiiiiiight. Which bus do you ride? The regular bus, or the short bus?”