What grinds your gears then?

[Lissy]

there is a new movie coming out this year called when your stange. im sooooo excited. i looove the doors

[RockyRaccoon]

there is a new movie coming out this year called when your stange. im sooooo excited. i looove the doors

Do you? I never got that vibe

[MindCrime]

that grinds your gears, really Lissy?

[RockyRaccoon]

Perhaps it grinds her gears that it is not out right now?

[edna]

Husbands who spend more money than they're supposed to...

[Ombre Vivante]

At the office this afternoon:

Girl: Do you have any plans for this weekend?

Bitter Almonds: Nah. Just studying, catching up on everything I missed in class for the past two weeks, working on Monday's PowerPoint. How about you?

Girl: Nothing. Catch up on work for the conference, as usual. Probably hang out with some girlfriends tonight.

Bitter Almonds: Well, there IS that Renoir exhibit at the LACMA. I know you said you liked those Impressionist paintings and you can't beat seeing some of the works of the most celebrated painter of the style.

Girl: Really? But I bet it costs $40 to attend.

Bitter Almonds: Not at all. It's free on some days and probably $5 to enter during others. Maybe w...

Girl: Oh! I'll see if my girlfriends would go with me to see it.

Bitter Almonds: RRrrRRrRrRrGH! I meant WE should go!

F.M.L.

[Levis]

"I'm gonna be checking out the Renoir exhibition at LACMA on Saturday, do you want to come along?"

[MindCrime]

I read that thinking it was a story joke, until I didn't get the punch-line.

[edna]

"I'm gonna be checking out the Renoir exhibition at LACMA on Saturday, do you want to come along?"

That's the way...

[Ombre Vivante]

I read that thinking it was a story joke, until I didn't get the punch-line.

I sometimes think my existence is the punch-line

I need one of those hidden headphone thingies and have Levis and edna guide me through this minefield

[TheLizard]

I know you said you liked those Impressionist paintings and you can't beat seeing some of the works of the most celebrated painter of the style.

Do you really talk like that? That doesn't seem like a sentence anybody would be able to pull off, ever.

[Ombre Vivante]

Uh, maybe I took a long/deep breath or maybe I used to watch too much Dawson's Creek and Daria. I even made hand gestures and everythin'!

[Levis]

If SHE'S the one who started the conversation re: plans for the weekend, the field was wide open. Ask her next week if she went for the exhibition, she probably won't have. I'm going to guess it's still on the following weekend in which case you've to be all 'Well I'm going this week if you want to come along'... etc.

If possible squeeze in a "because... (launch into detailed and passionate rant about how Renoir is so misunderstood/ahead of his time/underrated)"

How do I know all this?

Anyway, I'm here because my gears are v. v. ground, my iPod appears farked and I've done nothing but treat it like gold (except for the few dozen times I dropped it but then that's why I got it a case)

[Shawna]

I agree. If she was the one doing the asking, she was maybe hoping for you to suggest she do something with you, and when you presented a, "Well, there's this exhibit," and didn't say anything about "we" or "us," she was probably disappointed and figured you didn't want to do something with her.

[TheLizard]

Well if that's the case, then she should have said "I'd like to do something with you". Why must you female-types be so cryptic?

[Ombre Vivante]

She'll never say it because she's into alpha types that take charge every time, all the time. I cut the wrong wire again and it blew up on my face. This large head of mine is not helping! I gotta headache... and only a Togo's avo and cheese sandwich with mustard and mayo on wheat will remediate it

[Levis]

90% of chicks are into alpha types who take charge or are at least capable of it. If dude can't make a decision or give a straight answer, drop him.

[TheLizard]

******* alpha types. I guess that makes me a beta type.

[TheLizard]

What grinds me gears? I have to pee

[MuzikTyme]

I might be wrong but I think possibly the week-long every night "Forrest Gump" marathon has hastened your previous reply.

Coincidentally.

[_Laurie_]

Grrrr my 84 yr old father in law....he comes in and watches the olympics with me....and says "oh this must be taped because I saw this the other day..this is the part where she falls".....

[TheLizard]

I might be wrong but I think possibly the week-long every night "Forrest Gump" marathon has hastened your previous reply.

Coincidentally.

[MarcM]

Grrrr my 84 yr old father in law....he comes in and watches the olympics with me....and says "oh this must be taped because I saw this the other day..this is the part where she falls".....

I can relate, Laurie! My 84 year old father in law likes to explain things that are painfully obvious!

[MuzikTyme]

At that age, he's lucky to explain anything!

[MarcM]

True!