the fun factor
This guy called me boring today and told me that I lacked the “fun factor” and I’m still not sure what to make of it. Should I feel insulted or offended? Do I cop it to he doesn’t know me anyway? I was told that I need my own life stories and given the advice: go get wasted in Vegas or something. You need a story like I set my lawn mower on fire, or how about that time when you drove backwards through a McDonald’s drive through.
If someone told me that they set their lawn mower on fire, or they drove backwards through a McDonald’s drive-through, I might think twice about why we’re friends in the first place. I don’t like making an ass out of myself even more than the next guy, and I don’t know about you, but making-an-ass-out-of-yourself stories don’t flow freely for me when the conversation is one-way.
I have my share of stories but I don’t volunteer them to just anyone. I’ve made titles for a couple in the style of Friends: “The One with the Pus” “The One Where I Ran Away” “The One When I Lit Tim Trotta’s Hair on Fire” “The One with the Shark Costume” “The One with a Four-Way Kiss” “The One in South Lake Tahoe” “The One in Washington Square Park” I’ve always considered myself a good conversationalist, because I can talk to anyone about almost anything-- water bottles, farmers’ markets, restaurants, music, relationships, even nasal polyps (yes, this conversation actually took place on Monday, July 20, 2009).
But if you're bored then you're boring. The agony and the irony, they're killing me, whoa!
-Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger
If someone told me that they set their lawn mower on fire, or they drove backwards through a McDonald’s drive-through, I might think twice about why we’re friends in the first place. I don’t like making an ass out of myself even more than the next guy, and I don’t know about you, but making-an-ass-out-of-yourself stories don’t flow freely for me when the conversation is one-way.
I have my share of stories but I don’t volunteer them to just anyone. I’ve made titles for a couple in the style of Friends: “The One with the Pus” “The One Where I Ran Away” “The One When I Lit Tim Trotta’s Hair on Fire” “The One with the Shark Costume” “The One with a Four-Way Kiss” “The One in South Lake Tahoe” “The One in Washington Square Park” I’ve always considered myself a good conversationalist, because I can talk to anyone about almost anything-- water bottles, farmers’ markets, restaurants, music, relationships, even nasal polyps (yes, this conversation actually took place on Monday, July 20, 2009).
Click to viewBut if you're bored then you're boring. The agony and the irony, they're killing me, whoa!
-Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger