One of the big differences between my old job in Utah and my new job in California is the kind of university I work at. In Utah, I was still in a medium-to-large city, but in California, I’m right downtown. Which means dealing with the occasional tweaker, crackhead, alcoholic, homeless person, and/or…general crazy person.
That’s the background for this little story.
So, I was leaving the library yesterday and walking down the street to the parking garage when a man in an electric wheelchair came speeding up–I should note here than he was driving in a remarkably straight line for someone who reeked of whiskey–and stopped right in front of me. He stares at my chest and said, “I don’t know if she has children, but I told that lady she had nice breasts.”
I blinked. Tried not to snort. Stepped around him. Kept going and hoped he didn’t decide to follow me in his very fast wheelchair that could SO beat me in a race.
So. Um. Thank you, homeless man? I’m not sure if he was talking about MY breasts, since he said “she” rather than “you” or if I was measuring up unfavorably to some chesty broad in his mind, but…okay.
I may, apparently, have nice breasts, but maybe not. Still not sure how that would relate to having children, unless he thought the nice breasts were due to breastfeeding, but…perhaps applying logic here is giving him a little too much benefit of the doubt.
by R.G. Alexander August 25th, 2009 at 8:34 am ♦Crazy? Maybe. Right? Yes.
Story? Priceless.
LOL
More like this
than this 
But, still…maybe his internal monologue/narrative popped out.
by Crystal Jordan August 25th, 2009 at 8:35 am ♦You know sometimes you have to take the compliments where you find them-and you do have nice breasts
by Kate Pearce August 25th, 2009 at 10:33 am ♦Hey, I blogged about it…so I’m willing to assume if he was staring at my bosom, I was the “her” he was talking about, kids or no kids.
by Crystal Jordan August 25th, 2009 at 10:35 am ♦Umm… from pics, I would have to concur with crazy man – nice
But then… OMG>.. I just saw this
I had to include it.
by April Morelock August 25th, 2009 at 12:41 pm ♦There really is nothing like good smilies to choose from, is there?
by Crystal Jordan August 25th, 2009 at 12:42 pm ♦You’ve got awesome ta tas!
by Shelli Stevens August 25th, 2009 at 4:23 pm ♦I always thought one of my co-workers had, hmm-hm, an issue because she was forever walking through the parking lot talking to herself while we filed toward the entrance. Just recently I learned the truth. A) She only gets to talk to her parents on the drive over to the library, b) she has one of those bluetooth ear-thingies to her cellphone, and c) her long curly hair covers it up.
Other than pinning down the skeaziness and checking him for bluetooth connectivity, I wish you well on dealing with urban life.
by Dixie Chick August 26th, 2009 at 9:18 am ♦Well, you do have very nice breasts, so I’m pretty sure he was talking to you…just sayin’…
by Eden Bradley August 26th, 2009 at 12:34 pm ♦