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8:46pm February 16, 2015

Social faux pas #2938

Your friend’s earthy-crunchy-hippie-extremely-vegan roommate spots a book by Temple Grandin on the floor.

She asks what it’s about.

You very enthusiastically say, “She’s this autistic woman who can think in pictures so well that she can do all this engineering stuff in her head, she can even test entire facilities in her head, and she designs slaughterhouses for a living.”

As soon as you say “designs slaughterhouses” you see a look and sound that says “This woman has no redeeming qualities.”

Very soon you find yourself banned from that apartment…

That wasn’t the only faux pas that caused it, I was a walking faux pas when I was 19, not to mention I think they got unnerved when I climbed the doorframes and sat up by the ceiling for hours at a time, but that was certainly one of those foot-in-mouth moments of “Oh shit I said what to who?!?”

Notes:
  1. flamethrowing-hurdy-gurdy said: But…wait. She asked. She got an answer, a truthful and useful answer. I don’t think it’s your faux pas, your fault, just an awkward situation?
  2. maikisan said: Am I the only person who thinks the fault here is with the vegan person?
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