The Mission Dialogues

[lilmissnever]

Sometimes when I am walking home from the Mysterious Workplace or the climbing gym, I will cross paths with some friend or acquaintance who will try to get my attention by yelling something ridiculous or honking their car or touching my shoulder. Sometimes, if they don't know me well, they are surprised to find that my eyes do not immediately light

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[kavavita]

*standing ovation from the estrogen gallery*

[rivetpepsquad]

*seconded*

[fightingwords]

Yep.

[threadwalker]

Lovely scene. :)

Reasons I appreciate living in the Castro every day. Very seldom whistled at (except cars driving by sometimes). Usually compliments are polite and sincere, as are the people. So glad. Couldn't live in the Mission. Can hardly stand walking a block there.

[lilmissnever]

See, I love the Mission. I love SOMA. I just don't like being cursed at because I don't want to stop and have a meaningful conversation with every last person who tries to talk to me on the street. I suspect that men who randomly try to hit on women walking down the street think that women should be flattered by the attention, so of course any woman who does not appear to be delighted to be reminded that she's seen as nothing more than an ambulatory sex toy is a stuck up bitch.

[kavavita]

My two stock responses are "sorry, I don't fuck pencil dicks" whilst waggling a pinky at them, or "besa tu madre con esa boca?" depending on what language they are being assholes in. (Sorry for spelling, I don't speak a whit of spanish. I just had a friend teach me something to yell back ;) )

I like your writers better. Especially the Columbo part.

[thewronghands]

Yep. Or the tired old "but I'd love it if that happened to me" counterargument. No, no, you really wouldn't. It's not as cool as you're thinking it is. You're imagining yourself drowning in solicitations from people attractive to you, and a James Bond life of hawtness to follow. Really, just imagine that the same people soliciting me are the exact same people soliciting you, at the same frequency. Still hot? Didn't think so.

[edge_of_within]

You are my hero.

[ijeremy]

Can I borrow your writers?

[lilmissnever]

They're completely unrealistic.

[ijeremy]

I don't need unrealistic. I need snappy comebacks.

[lilmissnever]

Over the years, my writers have provided me with many snappy comebacks. I think I may be in one of those Plucky Girl Living in the City dramadies. I'm fairly certain that there isn't a laugh track, but it may include those horrible montage sequences set to popular music. I wouldn't watch it.

[maradydd]

Oakland has gotten really chill too. The public transit is kind of crap so I've taken to asking random homeless guys near BART for directions because they tend to know the bus lines pretty well. I never get hassled for more than a cigarette, which I'm always happy to spare anyway. Admittedly I don't really spend that much time in Oakland, but I have a few friends who live over there and sometimes I need to get supplies for projects (eg powder coating for metalwork) from vendors that just don't exist in SF. Industrial neighbourhoods are usually pretty sketchy but the random people I meet on the street have just been ordinary people who work and live nearby

[ilcylic]

Curiousity, do you reply with a similar polite noise to "Good evening?"