I do not have gears low enough for this

[tattooofhername]

Went into town. Got a milkshake. Sat at the sundial for a bit and soaked up the awesome weather.

Enter: spotty teenage couple, the male half of which desperately needed several parts of this throat removed and his sinuses pulling through with a christmas tree.

"Why you not wearing shoooes?"

I'm sure you can see where this is going.

"Because I don't want to."

"But like, everyone else wears shoes."

"So? That doesn't mean I have to."

Confused silence reins for a moment.

"Yeah but like, you got to wear shoes."

"I don't have to. There's no law saying I have to."

More confused silence.

"yeah but like, it's not cool to go barefoot."

"So? I don't care, I don't want to wear shoes today."

"But... it's weird."

"And I don't care if it's weird. I do what I want."

"But like, other people will think you're really weird!"

Circles. Around and around in fucking circles. It carried on like that, onto my hairy legs and bralessness, and I just couldn't get it through to them that I don't care if it's not cool, or that nobody else does it, or that it's not fashionable or that people might think I'm weird. It's like the poor boy's clogged airways had given him brain damage or something. No idea about his girlfriend, who was equally thick, mind.

Comments

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

Whyyy does anyone care about someone else's feet? I just don't understand this - I really don't understand why people CARE what other people look like or wear or do or anything.

This isn't a "respect everyone's privacy and choices and personhood" deal, I literally do not give a fuck and don't understand why anyone else does. Just WHYYY?!


the need to "normality police" in some people needs thwacking with a large plank of wood

[tattooofhername.livejournal.com]

In this instance all I can do is shake my head and grumble about brainwashed mouthbreathers. Literal mouthbreathing, from one of them. It's probably never occurred to them that people are capable of walking barefoot outside before.