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[blue_lotus13]

Since moving to the Commercial Drive area, I've noticed that a lot of the dudes out here like to rock the Morgan Spurlock (of Super Size me) look. There are a lot of dudes with some facial hair and massive sideburns. It's pretty amusing.


Chapters has been weird lately. I think it must be spring as lots of strange people have been coming in to visit.

For example- A guy came in for a book about firearms safety. He reeked of booze.

Kate Beckinsale came in and read some Robert Munsch to her daughter. She is very literate and buys a lot of books. She also has a good looking boyfriend/husband.

Spring must be affecting people in other ways. I rarely get hit on, but in the past week, I've been pursued twice by random strangers. Yesterday a guy came in to Chapters to ask me for coffee. He was really polite about it. Last week, I was followed around twice by a guy who said that he had just arrived about three weeks ago from East Africa. He followed me while I did my errands on the Drive and asked me all sorts of personal questions. I managed to brush off his request for coffee by telling him I was going to dance class.

Him- What sort of dance class?
Me- Middle Eastern.
Him- Are you Middle Eastern?
Me- No, I'm part Chinese.
Him- How come your eyes aren't slits?

ETA- [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] pointed out that I shouldn't be surprised that someone from another culture wondered why my eyes were not "slits". I agree with him. However, I was still somewhat surprised and it was an interesting experience for me on many levels, which is why I chose to share it.

Comments

[lindaquelinda.livejournal.com]

wow, i can't believe he said that to you.

and then it's like, "so why don't you want to have dinner with me?" hah.

[angharad.livejournal.com]

No kidding. I'm sure that's a pickup line that's worked well for him in the past, not.

[tunabelly.livejournal.com]

it's amazing what comes outta these ppl sometimes. can they really not know they're being insulting? i once had a guy tell me he loved my "geisha hair" WTF! another time this guy assumed he was too tall for me (as i stand at 5 feet, nothing) so he said he "could stoop down to my level." grrr...

[(Anonymous)]

Kate Beckinsale, if I recall correctly, did go to Oxford University, so it's not that surprising that you'd keep seeing her ass at Chapter's.

I only know this because my Dad had a big crush on her years back, and he justified it on that they'd gone to the same university.

-gillian (http://www.gunson.ca/blog)

You rarely get hit on?

[artsguy.livejournal.com]

Really? Man, if I didn't know that you had a boyfriend the first time I met you I would've hit on you. Instead, I was just chummy and desperately trying to keep the boys out of trouble.

Kate Beckinsale came in and read some Robert Munsch to her daughter.

[reluctance.livejournal.com]

Speaking of which:

Hi,

Robert Munsch will be reading at the library on Wednesday, May 11 at the
Alice Mackay room at 5:00 pm.

Thanks,

Mari Paz Vera
Community Relations Office
Vancouver Public Library
604 331 4041

a guy who said that he had just arrived about three weeks ago from East Africa...
Him- How come your eyes aren't slits?

How totally surprising that someone from a far-removed and very different part of the world has emerged from a culture that apparently may have considerably different views on what constitutes acceptable public discourse on matters of ethnic/"racial" physical differences.

I mean, it is surprising to hear in Vancouver, The Most Integrated, Multi-Cultural Land In The World, but I'm sure he'll figure out what he's doing wrong within a couple of years.

Re: Kate Beckinsale came in and read some Robert Munsch to her daughter.

[(Anonymous)]

Re Kate:

She speaks German, Russan and French.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000295/bio

FF