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So I'm at Taco Bell last night grabbing a bite on the way to rehearsal, and I'm listening to the conversation at the next table, which is between two tattooed guys who are probably roofers or electricians or something similar. I'll call them Biff and Dirk, and I'll try to clean up the language a little.
Now, since I didn't have a newspaper to read, I found this highly entertaining to listen to. Here was an entire subsection of society that I normally don't get exposed to, being a middle-aged upstanding citizen.
My wife and I have discussed at times that we have all of these little segments of society. For example, we are "theatre geeks" and try out for plays and musicals. There is a small group of people that do this, so we run into the same people all the time, and there is a protocol associated with doing this: things you are supposed to do and not supposed to do, how you dress and speak, a jargon associated with this segment, etc.
Another segment, a la Little Miss Sunshine, would be the "junior beauty pageant circuit". They have their own little clique, and jargon, and accepted protocols.
Obviously I ran into a different segment at the Taco Bell.
What segment(s) of society do you associate with, besides "gamers" of course?
Biff: Where you been?
Dirk: F-ing Neil got stabbed in the head again last night.
Biff: What a p-word. What happened?
Dirk: We went over to his place, and his girlfriend Carrie had her dealer over, and they were like humping, and Neil went all p-word on him.
Biff: Neil's such a p-word. I'm sure he got the s-word beat out of him.
Dirk: Actually, Neil was doing OK, but then the dealer guy pulled a knife on him and stabbed him in the head.
Biff: What a p-word.
Dirk: It totally sucked. I had to take Neil to Hoag [Hospital] and get him a couple of staples [stitches], and the whole time Carrie is all freaking out like she never saw blood before. You shoulda heard Neil scream like a baby when he got stabbed.
Biff: I did a year in county [jail] with Neil, and he got beat up all the time. He's such a p-word. He's gotta be on parole or probation or something. Did he get [his parole] violated?
Dirk: Nah. The cops came by Hoag and asked him what happened, and they released him into my custody, since I'm his sponsor.
Now, since I didn't have a newspaper to read, I found this highly entertaining to listen to. Here was an entire subsection of society that I normally don't get exposed to, being a middle-aged upstanding citizen.
My wife and I have discussed at times that we have all of these little segments of society. For example, we are "theatre geeks" and try out for plays and musicals. There is a small group of people that do this, so we run into the same people all the time, and there is a protocol associated with doing this: things you are supposed to do and not supposed to do, how you dress and speak, a jargon associated with this segment, etc.
Another segment, a la Little Miss Sunshine, would be the "junior beauty pageant circuit". They have their own little clique, and jargon, and accepted protocols.
Obviously I ran into a different segment at the Taco Bell.
What segment(s) of society do you associate with, besides "gamers" of course?