For once, I didn't bother calling for a cab or anyone to pick me up. I decided to rough it out in the queue at the cab stand at Ngee Ann City.
While standing at the super long queue, I recalled these 2 random conversations that were separately conducted with a fairly familiar colleague and a 3-year acquaintance who I'm not comfortable to call 'friend' just yet.
The conversation below isn't verbatim. The gist remains the same.
Colleague/Acquaintance (CA): How're you?! What've you been up to? Been travelling?
imp: Yea, work trips and a yummy vacation with *Barney. [*just take it as the man's name. Don't laugh.]
CA: Who's *Barney???
imp: My partner. [still feeling neutral]
CA: Who's your partner??!!!
imp: In other social circles, you call them boyfriends or husbands. In mine, we call them 'partners'. Barney's my partner. [wondering why I'm still talking to her]
CA: Orrrh! Boyfriend say boyfriend lah! Boyfriend and husbands not the same wat! Boyfriend married already different from husband. Why must call partner ah?! So atas for wat!
imp: o_O [lamely] I follow Hollywood mah.
On those separate occasions, I was quite amused, but I also honestly wanted to clobber them both. It's almost the same logic, but to a way lesser degree as compared to how someone pissed me off by grabbing my finger to scrutinize my rock, then asked why the 'boyfriend' would buy me a HUGE diamond if we're not married and what have I done to deserve it. I tell you, *Barney himself would have kicked her giant ass over the edge of the cliff for making such a comment. It's not our fault if your ignorance is because of how your husband treats you by the way of stick and carrot. I wanted to tell her that this is the smallest rock I've got. Anyway, the reply shot out, it's because we belong to a different generation.
No wonder I don't particularly like talking to certain humans very much.
@ 12.20am :: ps: *Barney just clobbered me for having the audacity to term him as.....ahem...a purple dinosaur.
25 comments:
l laughed twice. about the hollywood bit and your not particularly liking talking to certain humans. hahah.
but ya, me too.
i prefer talking to rocks. real rocks not diamonds, though diamonds might make me happier.
YAH you deserved to be clobbered by *Barney! :D
HAHAHHAA.
but i've been called barney by my blogger friends. eek
I was totally going to say I didn't think "Barney" was going to take well to being called "Barney". Why not just Dinosaur? at least you could claim it was after the band :)
PS Love the new header.
Human, why can't we be abit nicer to each other and stop pushing own's view or rather lack of self acceptance upon others? Why must there be a need for a proposal to deserve a rock? Poor woman, she must be only gotten one on that particular day and that's it for the rest of her pathetic life... I detest, self righteous people who thinks out of norm is a disease...
i'd have clobbered the C/A.
mistipurple: i'm lame lah! and rocks of any form won't talk back to you. heh. because of your fondness for purple?
jomel: OEHH!
dawn: he raised vociferous objections which i resolutely ignored. it was the first name that popped into my head! Barney has a nicer dumb ring than Dinosaur. WAHHAHA.
liverella: by and by, i realize that many women are really NOT at all progressive.
sinlady: SO VIOLENT!
tsk~ sum 'PHD' species need 2 google and kena clobbered more..if i haf the huge rock i'll oso blind e sua ku person..no need explanations..muahaha..hmm at least e nick Barney is cuter den tos koochi-poo names given by "act-alot-like-tweens" species bah..hurhur..
This is really freaky (and funny...but freaky mostly) but Barney is actually my partner's name! Gaaaaks!
Also, I call him 'partner' too. That way, I get ppl wondering whether it's a gf or bf....
You are funny! Keke!
I feel your pain, but sorry babe, I can't stop laughing. *Barney! How on earth did this come to your mind??? Hahahahaha.
p/s I apologise for my rudeness, *Barney's partner. :D
Tsk.. what is it with these annoying humans who love to impose their narrowminded opinions on others?
I think you'd do well not to refer to the partner as The Purple Dino, instead of The Man henceforth. :p
"Barney" *snigger*
"boyfriend" sounds so girlish and icky. I call mine "partner" too.
And I bought my big rock with my own money, tankjewvelymuch.
Hehehe, will he always be termed as "Barney" from now on? ;)
I can't believe you took time out to explain to her! Your last line is too funny!
I would have clobbered AND kicked their giant asses over the edge ...
someone called me "Barney" recently becos of my liking for purple ... I like it not at all .... hmmmpf.
~CDR~
mochalatte + pebbles: hahaha. luckily i don't really call him Barney. it just popped into the mind for the purpose of this post. HEH.
Frou: no way!!! good. stick to the term partner. AIIIGH!
yuling: dunno leh. he likes dinosaurs. it's just unfortunately that Barney's purple. so that popped into my mind when typing this out.
eveline: that's the way to go girl!
lms: i must have been in a nice mood. they genuinely think very conservatively and traditionally. in their worlds, they can't fathom mine. so i mustn't be rude. *angelic smile*
b.muse: yah lor. i don't laugh at them for going 'my husband' whole day long till i don't even know the husband's name wat. WAHAHAH. he said the exact same words as you did.
CDR: AIYOH. it's really not a good moniker to give to a girl!
Partner is a good word to use in today's context. It's so neutral. You can use it in both heterosexual and homosexual relationships.
Barney is cute leh...
i thought partner is quite a safe term. cos i won't know if the other person is a boyfriend, fiance or husband. partner sure correct what! ;)
haha... funny post! of all names... why Barney? i think most (straight) men hates the purple dinosaur. haha... also... traditional people don't understand "partner" meh? weird. it's a very common term wot. or traditional people are most used to the term "lover" (ai ren)? ;P
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Hollywood! That's a GREAT one!
sesame: that too.
candice: yes! exactly my point. it's like the politically correct version.
D: hahaha. indeed. i dunno leh. i think only the Chinese use 'ai ren'. the rest just still refers to boyfriend/girlfriend/husband/wife.
kachunknorge: that answer is so versatile. it explains anything and everything.
dawn: oh hehehhe. on a big screen u can see the cute doggie all stretched out!
I like that you use the term 'partner' than boyfriend. The latter puts the relationship on a more serious note. Between the man and me, we used to just say that we are dating.
MG: yeah, it kinda does have a more serious ring to it.
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