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No big rant here. It's all about me.
I've had some friction with several around here about male-female interactions. I got my attitude handed to me on a silver platter this morning. My inner doofus came out.
I'm coming into work, fumbling with my building access card. I come in before the building is officially open, so I swipe at the door. Then again to get to the elevators. A woman's already in, and an elevator arrives while it takes me three tries to swipe in.
She holds the door.
I get in, thanking her as I hit the button for my floor. She makes a light joke that she wasn't sure I was coming.
Being an IT geek, and with all the social skills that implies, I respond with, "yeah." I think I smiled, but in trying to find something witty to say, I wound up saying nothing.
She wished me a good day when I got out, and I repeated that back, at least.
But, uh, yeah. After all my talk, I just became the stone-faced recipient of good intentions.
I know it goes both ways. I hate being the one to illustrate it. So, yeah, doofus. Me. So have at me. I've earned this one.
I've had some friction with several around here about male-female interactions. I got my attitude handed to me on a silver platter this morning. My inner doofus came out.
I'm coming into work, fumbling with my building access card. I come in before the building is officially open, so I swipe at the door. Then again to get to the elevators. A woman's already in, and an elevator arrives while it takes me three tries to swipe in.
She holds the door.
I get in, thanking her as I hit the button for my floor. She makes a light joke that she wasn't sure I was coming.
Being an IT geek, and with all the social skills that implies, I respond with, "yeah." I think I smiled, but in trying to find something witty to say, I wound up saying nothing.
She wished me a good day when I got out, and I repeated that back, at least.
But, uh, yeah. After all my talk, I just became the stone-faced recipient of good intentions.
I know it goes both ways. I hate being the one to illustrate it. So, yeah, doofus. Me. So have at me. I've earned this one.