OK, I'll admit it: people drive me nuts. (Makes total sense that I live in a city with 8 million of them, right?) But I don't loathe everyone. Here, wild generalizations about certain categories of folks, designed to make me feel like less of a misanthrope.
1. Women named Jennifer. There are a lot of them out there, so it's interesting that I've liked pretty much every one I've encountered. Sorry if I'm discriminating against men named Jennifer. It's just that I haven't met any.
2. Public transit riders who, when they get a phone call, say, "I can't talk right now, I'm on a bus/train."
3. People who went to so-called Public Ivys. If your parents ever told you, "Sure, you want to go NYU, but we can only afford SUNY," I'm predisposed to be on your side. (Not that I dug everyone I went to college with, exactly, but I still feel a certain kinship.)
4. Minnesotans in exile. I've met at least half a dozen Gophers in New York and I've enjoyed them all. What is it with those people? Surely some of them must be jerks, but I haven't come across any. On a related note:
5. Californians who have moved to New York. Growing up, I always saw Cali as the promised land. So I'm impressed by people who gave up swimming pools and movie stars to live in a place where the weather is crap about 75 percent of the time. It shows they have character.
6. People who laugh at their own jokes. This is adorable. It helps if the jokes are funny, but it's not strictly necessary.
8 comments:
I am not named Jennifer, nor am a a Gopher but I certainly laugh at my own jokes. (particularly because no one else does.)
Do you know the M. Doughty song. "27 Jennifers"? I feel like you would like all of them, too.
@Random, your jokes are funny so that's even better.
@Meister, I did not know that song until now! Catchy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nN_5kkYR6k
I don't think that I laugh at my own jokes, alas, but had I been born a girl my name would be Jennifer.
Was it not Billy Bragg who said, "And her husband was one of those blokes. The sort who only laughs at his own jokes." I'm not sure we're supposed to like those blokes.
Oh, you have to laugh at other people's jokes as well as your own. Otherwise you're selfish, and that's no good. But if you don't laugh at your own jokes, you're just kind of waiting for other people to laugh at them. It's show-offy.
Canadians and people who like the same bands I do.
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