Modern Etiquette
I have two housemates. One (#1) is a close to a total social recluse. He's a very bright guy, fundamentally decent and responsible--more so than I am, actually. Yet he's almost pathologically shy, and has even worse fortune with women than I do (which is saying a good deal). Anyhoo, he has at last had a change in fortunes and tonight he brings a woman back for company to the bachelor monastery. They are whatever-ing in his room--maybe, I don't know for sure and don't really care--and my other housemate (#2) and I are living life as usual in the living room-watching TV, playing CD's, eating dinner. Fine, right? #2 plays a Steely Dan CD. I put a Devo CD on after that. He says he can't understand how I can do so, when that is obviously Inappropriate. I don't know WTF he means. He says it is inappropriate (love that word) in light of the goings-on with #1 and his squeeze in the next room, which I guess are Too Holy and Serious for such Profane Musical Accompaniment. I tell him that life goes on as usual whether people have it off or not. I would not expect anyone to play madrigals or burn incense if I shagged a woman, and I tell him so. But #2 is in an awful constipated self-righteous mood and it's late and I don't want to fight at this hour, so I take the damn CD off.
OK, will somebody please find me the Book of Somebody Getting Lucky at Last Etiquette and show me the paragraph where it says we're all supposed to roll our eyes up to Heaven and walk softly when it happens? When you were a kid, did you stop watching cartoons or playing your records because your folks were Doing It? Jerome Christmas, the human race is getting stupider by the minute. Devo is dead right about that.
OK, will somebody please find me the Book of Somebody Getting Lucky at Last Etiquette and show me the paragraph where it says we're all supposed to roll our eyes up to Heaven and walk softly when it happens? When you were a kid, did you stop watching cartoons or playing your records because your folks were Doing It? Jerome Christmas, the human race is getting stupider by the minute. Devo is dead right about that.