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Found myself in the middle of an interesting conversation down at the comic shop just now. Comic Shop Boy (who is actually in his mid-twenties by now) was sounding off about how fed up he is and how he’s had a shitty year, and how there are various people who don’t like him and who he really wants to hurt. Described how he would do it in rather graphic detail, while I and another customer – a peaceable-looking bloke who probably works quietly in an office – tried to persuade him that joining the army just to get an HGV drivers licence was probably not a good idea, since he also said that if anyone tried to give him any f**king orders, he’d break their f**king legs.

Peaceable Office Bloke was trying to tell him how he crosses the road when he sees his enemies coming (and there was me thinking to myself, “Enemies? You?”) ‘because it isn’t worth it’, while I chipped in to say that personally, I’d run like hell. Comic Shop Boy was not impressed, however; said that if he has the opportunity to break the legs of this particular person who’s been hassling him, and thereby take him down a peg or two, thus making him ultimately a better person, he felt it was his civic duty to do it.

Wonder if he’ll still be at the shop next time I venture down that way? Probably, it’ll blow over, but you could tell he was really fed up, as he said that he didn’t care if his house caught fire and his collection of 5000 plus comics was incinerated.

:Pats Comic Shop Boy on his prematurely balding head and feels motherly towards him:

Date: 2004-12-09 07:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bogwitch.livejournal.com
Wow he really is fed up if doesn't care about the comics!

Date: 2004-12-09 08:10 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bogwitch.livejournal.com
It's all those bulging muscles the superheroes have.

Date: 2004-12-09 08:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bogwitch.livejournal.com
I think I know the type.

Date: 2004-12-09 08:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bogwitch.livejournal.com
I've met some of the nicely people at comic fair, much nicer than the people at Sci Fi one. I was asked for my number in one once - the one and only time someone has asked for it just like that.

Date: 2004-12-09 10:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lillianmorgan.livejournal.com
Poor bloke.
At least it got your mind off other things (beginning with p) though.

Date: 2004-12-10 03:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lillianmorgan.livejournal.com
I noticed the comments made in the previous post had mysteriously disappeared and I thought "Hmmm, maybe the whole plumbing fiasco was my imagination". Well, at least I hoped that for you.

Date: 2004-12-10 06:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lillianmorgan.livejournal.com
Don't do that to me. I'm too gullable.

Date: 2004-12-11 04:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lillianmorgan.livejournal.com
I'm pretty sure it's ok. Normally the icon creators tell you what to do in the post - so if they have a major hang up they'll come back to you.

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