Fake Boyfriend

Problem solved! I stayed late at the office today, for the first time since I've been back, and ended up eating dinner with a certain TCE mgr - you know, guy who AKT swears she wasn't admiring during UFE prep ("it was LT! LT! LT!") So we went to Marche, got our food & brought it back to the Firm's caf - and who should see us as we're stepping off the elevator but Techie Guy! I almost didn't recognize him, but we exchanged "hi's" and then TCE mgr and I went to the caf.

SCORE! Do you think he thinks he's my bf??

Wait - does that mean I won't get technical support anymore????

On a totally unrelated note...

As much as I'm pissed at Bell Mobility, I succumb to the inevitability of poor customer service and have chosen the devil I know vs. the one I don't. They're both devils, so better to go with the one that lets me keep my phone number. Right? No more agonizing!

Sigh..."once I was the king of spain...."

It never rains but it pours

I wish I could've also titled this "Azn Fetish", but since he's also Azn, I guess that doesn't work...so what the hell do I call it? Pedophile? You be the judges...

Context: at work...had to go down to tech support and get my laptop configured for wireless, which, by the way, STILL isn't working. the techie guy down there had already had to help me with other problems, so apparently I was already getting infamous with the TSS group. So he fixes my hub, and I get back to my desk - and no sooner do I get back to my desk than he starts instant messengering me [these are actual quotes of his messages, I did not alter them except as noted in brackets]:


Techie - So are there any other computer problems?:P
Me - well actually....i wasn't able to access external internet when i came back to my desk, then i figured out the proxy was unchecked, so i fixed it, MYSELF :P
Techie - oh ya the proxy
Techie - oops:P~
Techie - psssh
Techie - so how long have you actually been with [The Firm] Miss Woesie R

[ed note - one of the problems he had to help me with was this mysterious "R" middle name...]

Techie - :P
Me - in total....over 6 years i think....
Techie - WOW
Me - yeah - was way too long, much longer than i thought it'd be
Techie - well now longer than ever muhahahahaha!
Techie - :P
Me - yes, exactly...boomerang
Techie - haha i thought u were like 23-24... but seeing how u been here 6yrs, there goes that theory:P
Me - yeah, unless i'm a child genius, which i'm not
Techie - of course not, that's why we stuck the "R" in your middle initial, and you said everyone figured it out:P hehe

[ed note - I had told him that JCL figgered the "R" = retard]

Me - right
Techie - lol
Techie - ya ML calls you the lil mouse that roared
Techie - and i was thinking, hrmmm if you try to pronounce Woesie in chinese... you can sorta make it out to say "low shue" as in mice heh...


I had to cut it off there...ridiculous! He wasn't particularly fobby when I was talking to him, but where the hell did he come up with this "low shue" crap? BLOCK USER, BLOCK USER....

Girls, be careful of instant messengering and tech support....they don't mix!

Azn Fetish

Attention White Boys: GET OVER IT.

Talking to lil azn girlz about their horoscope signs - and WHITE horoscope signs, at that - is not a great way to pick up an azn chick. How could these dorks expect to compete with rice rockets and an engineering degree?

Context:

So I finally buy my cell phone from the local non-Bell Mobility store at the Eaton Centre. Plenty of azn guys work there, and I'm dealing with one, a guy who's been very patient with me all 20 times I visited and today when I finally committed to buying this phone.

White boy's been there each time too, but I always ignored him, because everyone knew that azn boy is helping me out.

Today, I'm at the counter, on hold with Bell for about 5 hours, and White Boy starts initiating conversation. First, he offers me some "Family Guy" (i.e. the TV show) version of spaz juice, which I decline. Then, once I'm off the phone with Bell, he starts by saying, "So, let me use my superpowers to tell you what sign you are." I'm too startled to object. His first guess: Aries. I said no. He said oh, his superpowers must not be working so well today. He asked me what my sign was. I told him to guess again, I would give him 3 more chances. He guessed 3 other signs that were wrong. Finally, I told him my sign, and he told me all these traits of that particular zodiac. I'm like, yeah, yeah - and I actually said to him, "So have you been reading a lot of Cosmo magazine or something?" You'd think he'd get the hint after that!!!

Meanwhile, the guy starts touching me - on my shoulder. Actual hand on shoulder with pressure & grip. Multiple times. In the context of, "Oh, you know, with your sign, [grip shoulder], you have a strong temper, but very loyal...blah blah blah." I'm like, how unprofessional is that???

Then he has to go through the whole ritual of, where am I from originally, oh, Chinese, you know, some people you can't tell and you don't want to offend the Korean guy by assuming he's Chinese....and where do I work, oh, doing HR, yeah, he knows some HR people and they just sit around and do nothing all day, blow people off and then hang out in the staff lounge and play computer games. Don't I agree that HR people don't do much work?

Blah blah blah....

DUDE...what's your problem? Does that work on white chicks? Cuz it don't work on lil azn girlz. Get over your fetish and go find some girls that you might actually be able to impress with your Cosmo magazine current events knowledge.

At least I got my phone...too bad the Chinese guy didn't hit on me instead. Does it mean he's gay if he's got a non-wedding ring on his ring finger?