SCENE: "15 items or less" grocery checkout aisle, 12:30 PM. We are waiting behind two people and a queue is rapidly forming behind us. Laurel, mildly bored by waiting, is looking at the covers of magazines next to the checkout stand.
Laurel: [reading the headline on a magazine] I'm Gay!
People around us look vaguely uncomfortable, particularly the woman immediately behind us in line.
Laurel: What does 'I'm gay' mean?
Me: It's like J-- and I--.
(J-- is my cousin; I-- is his boyfriend.)
Laurel: So what does 'gay' mean?
Me: It's when a man loves a man.
Laurel: [giggles]
Me: It's just a way people are, like having different-colored eyes. Just in our family, you have blue eyes, I have brown eyes and Daddy has green eyes.
The woman behind us now looks extremely uncomfortable.
Laurel: I'm gay! I'm gay!
Vogon and Me: [simultaneously] That's enough, Laurel.
...
The first time I explained homosexuality to her in the context of J-- and I--, she asked if that she could be their flower girl when they get married. I'm not sure whether I'll be relieved or mildly sad when that magazine goes off the newsstands.
Laurel: [reading the headline on a magazine] I'm Gay!
People around us look vaguely uncomfortable, particularly the woman immediately behind us in line.
Laurel: What does 'I'm gay' mean?
Me: It's like J-- and I--.
(J-- is my cousin; I-- is his boyfriend.)
Laurel: So what does 'gay' mean?
Me: It's when a man loves a man.
Laurel: [giggles]
Me: It's just a way people are, like having different-colored eyes. Just in our family, you have blue eyes, I have brown eyes and Daddy has green eyes.
The woman behind us now looks extremely uncomfortable.
Laurel: I'm gay! I'm gay!
Vogon and Me: [simultaneously] That's enough, Laurel.
...
The first time I explained homosexuality to her in the context of J-- and I--, she asked if that she could be their flower girl when they get married. I'm not sure whether I'll be relieved or mildly sad when that magazine goes off the newsstands.
- Current Mood:
giggly
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Greatness.
I seem to have that effect on women -- I think you're the first one in a long time that I haven't turned. LOL
How are things going up at Genesys Regional Medical Center? (That's where IP address 204.80.212.1 originates.)
I DON'T defend any anonymous poster's so-called "rights." It's cowardice at its best.
It's also one reason why I insist people who comment in my LJ at least have the balls to say who they are. I am entitled to that much.
You should be, too.
Just another MI asshole,
W.
Looking back I'm really impressed at how well my parents minimized the impact those words had to me. Since I'd been called a racial slur for the first time in middle school, when I got to high school I was ready to calmly point out why those words were a poor choice for insults.
Not that I was much better; my preferred insults at the time were phrases in Latin like "sheep breeder" or "wax eater".