Strange Conversations: Part One Hundred and Eighteen
Posted 19 April 2009 in Strange Conversations by Catriona
ME: Honey?
NICK: Yep?
ME: I’m doing a Facebook quiz to find out which literary time period I am.
NICK: Right . . .
ME: And it wants to know what people’s “most frequent (though perhaps mistaken) criticism” of me is. So am I a goody two-shoes, narcissistic, pretentious, a different person around different people, too serious, or (a couple of other options that I’ve forgotten already).
NICK: I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone say anything negative.
ME: I’m sure you have, but for the purposes of the quiz, which am I?
NICK: In other people’s eyes?
ME: Yes. I’m veering towards “pretentious.”
NICK: Well, yes: you are that.
ME: Because I . . . you what?
NICK: For the purposes of the quiz!
Share your thoughts [5]
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Heather wrote at Apr 20, 12:53 am
Poor Nick!
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Catriona wrote at Apr 20, 02:55 am
Why poor Nick? Because he thinks I’m pretentious?
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Heather wrote at Apr 20, 04:32 am
No…it’s just that I could totally see myself saying something like that. It’s that whole ‘foot-in-mouth’ thing.
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Drew wrote at Apr 21, 08:21 pm
Two words:
Kobayashi Maru.
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Catriona wrote at Apr 21, 08:38 pm
You are oddly obsessed with the Kobayashi Maru at the moment, Drew!
But I really don’t think this was an unwinnable situation. This is. And so is this. But not, I think, this one.