June 23, 2005
Somedays Are Better Than Others
About a block from work this morning, the guy in the car of me flips me off twice, then waves big and smiles. Did he confuse me with somebody else? Did he have trouble waving the first two times? I thought maybe it was a coworker but he kept on going so hopefully I'll never see him or his fingers ever again.
Posted by Kevin Murphy at June 23, 2005 12:16 PM | MeIt's just hard for folks to be lukewarm towards you.
Posted by: Sean Murphy at June 23, 2005 3:59 PMI did something like that once. I was following a co-worker who we'll call 'Bill' (since that's his name) in his white pickup truck to the Rio Grande for lunch. Bill was ahead of me, but then I lost him in traffic. At the Rio Grande lo and behold! a parking spot opened up for me right in front of the restaurant! I zipped into it, very satisfied, loaded the meter, stood up, and saw the white pickup truck drive by. Obviously it was Bill, circling for the good parking space that I had just taken.
I gave the pickup truck a very demonstrative and smug 'face' gesture just to rub it in. In case you don't remember from your Stanford days, a 'face' is formed by raising your open hand, palm inward, to your own face, while looking straight at the object of your derision: "Ha! I just 'faced' you by taking your parking spot! Ha!" A 'face' gesture is obviously derogatory.
As the pickup truck drove onward who should come walking up beside me but Bill! "Hey, let's get a table." Huh? Bill is right here beside me? Then who was that person I just 'faced'?
