Letting it go
Sep. 30th, 2007 10:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kitewithfishSo, I should be full of rage about the various incompetencies and stupidities perpetrated against my innocent personage today, but honestly, I am just very tired. I had a wonderful and rather expensive lunch, for which I will be reimbursed, that caused me to question wether it is possible to have an orgasm from food.
In other news, the director of my program did not know that we were moving today. She thought we were moving tomorrow, and so was completely surprised when we called her to tell her that we were late to our prescheduled meeting because we had to get all our stuff out of our rooms by 11 am. It has all worked out fine, and I'm now happily ensconced in a much nicer room with what appears to be a rather friendly roomie, but for the love of God! Really.
I also had to fend off this creepy old man at the wonderful lunch today. He said he was Finnish, I think, and he could not speak English or German, and he came up to us, saying "Candid Camera!" and tries to take our picture while we're just sitting there eating. So, I say "And I am candidly saying, no. Don't take our picture. No." But he went ahead with it anyways. Then, like twenty minutes later, after he's returned to his own table, he comes over with a joke on his cell phone in German (something about cows??) and tried to flirt with us. So, I told him, "Please, go away. Go back to your own table. Thank you." And then when we were leaving I gave him a glare.
Now, see, I see that he was not terribly offensive in his behavior, but he seemed to have dreamed up this situation where we were interested in him. Or looking at him at all, really. If we had been, then his thing with the joke might have been funny or cute, but the thing with the camera was just damn rude. I do *not* like strangers having my pictures, and it is never polite to just take someone's picture without their permission. So, his stupidity marred an otherwise absolutely *wonderful* meal with a really cute waiter and a lovely view.
In other news, the director of my program did not know that we were moving today. She thought we were moving tomorrow, and so was completely surprised when we called her to tell her that we were late to our prescheduled meeting because we had to get all our stuff out of our rooms by 11 am. It has all worked out fine, and I'm now happily ensconced in a much nicer room with what appears to be a rather friendly roomie, but for the love of God! Really.
I also had to fend off this creepy old man at the wonderful lunch today. He said he was Finnish, I think, and he could not speak English or German, and he came up to us, saying "Candid Camera!" and tries to take our picture while we're just sitting there eating. So, I say "And I am candidly saying, no. Don't take our picture. No." But he went ahead with it anyways. Then, like twenty minutes later, after he's returned to his own table, he comes over with a joke on his cell phone in German (something about cows??) and tried to flirt with us. So, I told him, "Please, go away. Go back to your own table. Thank you." And then when we were leaving I gave him a glare.
Now, see, I see that he was not terribly offensive in his behavior, but he seemed to have dreamed up this situation where we were interested in him. Or looking at him at all, really. If we had been, then his thing with the joke might have been funny or cute, but the thing with the camera was just damn rude. I do *not* like strangers having my pictures, and it is never polite to just take someone's picture without their permission. So, his stupidity marred an otherwise absolutely *wonderful* meal with a really cute waiter and a lovely view.
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Date: 2007-09-30 08:42 pm (UTC)