Forgot one thing...

I forgot to complain about something in my first post this morning *cue all my friends to groan, 'oh here we go.'*

There's this guy at work who looks like he's on a perpetual bender. Part of the problem is he has the face of a losing boxer and somehow grows a five o clock shadow at 7:30 am. The thing is, we all know he's not been on a bender because he's a complete dweeb.

So, he's a dweeb because he's like the proverbial nerd in every 1980's movie who sticks his nose into business that he thinks includes him but doesn't. He is VERY intelligent but lacks all social skills and is an intellectual snob. You can tell by his glasses, he thinks he's very clever.

I was bemoaning that I wanted to go to Europe for a week and just decompress, run away et al. I like being a foreigner. Matt was busy telling me what an idiot I am (he also has worked extensively overseas and has traveled europe) and I was arguing with him. The dweeb - I'll call him "Bender" for fun - interjects and says something very derisive about my personal preference to leave the country to take a break to London. I said, "I just want to go to London. That's easy." He is virtually sneering at me. He says to me, with all the haughtiness of a minimum wage Estee Lauder clerk, "Have you ever even been to London?"

Now I realize, if you don't know my personal background with London (second home..) it may seem my statement of "London is easy" would seem to be a huge assumption. When I've heard people say that, I always ask, "Why do you say that?" When they respond, "Because they speak english there." I query further because London, despite containing a dialect of English, is hardly easy. London is easy if you're accustomed to it. Rome, on the other hand, is an easy city. Anyway, so Bender is sneering at me "Have you ever even been to London?" and I'm looking at Matt like, "Oh no he di'n't".

Of course, I was nice about it. I said, "I'm familiar with it. Having worked there for years."

My pet peeve are assumptions. Assumptions starts with "Ass" after all.