Friday, January 18, 2008
How mean art thou?
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the most misanthropic of them all?
You're a grump. A grouch. A malcontent. Good on you. But certain sentimental cues can make you occasionally forget that humans are your natural enemy and must be discomfited as vigorously as possible.
How stereotypically misanthropic are you?
Make a Quiz
Apparently I'm not.
I scored a 60% on that fun and innocuous web quiz. 60% is certainly misanthropic, but I won't be winning any awards for cynic of the year being 40% off the mark. What a bummer...
On a side note, there may be a treat in store for me. The other day, a couple customers came into [Pages] bookstore. They've been regulars for years. They're an eccentric old German couple. They always shoot the shit with my boss [Amber Danielewski], and often bake cookies for the staff. They asked her that day what cookies she'd want them to bake for her. She mentioned some kind of cookie that has raspberry filling in the middle. The wife replied, "Oh, well we only make those around Easter." [Amber Danielewski] understood. Then the wife of the couple gleefully added, "We like to put little Swastikas on them!" [Amber Danielewski] said, "Oh, well I don't want them." She went on to explain that Nazis made her relatives dig their own graves then used guns and bullets to knock them into them. The husband of the couple's response was, "Oh, you need to get over it!" Then there was long awkward silence...
Who knows what will happen, maybe by some freak accident, they will forget or think my boss was joking, and they may drop the cookies off. They'll more than likely be in the trash before I get in, but I'll snatch them up anyway and wash them down with phenol.
Nothing lifts away the dread of not being the world's biggest misanthrope like cookies smothered with hate symbols!
