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  • 10-01-2010 4:16am
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    mise23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40 ✭


    Was inspired by a thread over on personal issues but wanted to keep things light hearted by going to AH.

    The basic idea is: Has anyone ever made a completely wrong assumption about you and acted on it? Bonus points if no amount of evidence to the contrary gets them to change their opinion.

    It's happened to me numerous times and often people have used the same circumstantial evidence to come to drastically different conclusions. In my case I think it's because I don't really talk about my personal life. Some people seem to jump to the conclusion that I must be hiding some deep dark secret or leading a double life. The reality is that I'm not that interesting and I don't have much of a personal life in the first place.

    I'll give you one example to start you off:

    Won't you please come out of the closet.

    I can be a right moody bastard sometimes, though I think I've definitely mellowed with age. It's fairly obvious to me that the cause is a lack of female companionship i.e. that I'm not getting laid on a regular basis.

    Anyway, about 8 years ago I was working with this very pleasant older lady. She seemed to have noticed my inherent grumpiness and came to the conclusion that it must be because I was experiencing a tumultuous inner struggle to accept my sexuality.

    So she began conversing almost exclusively about Gay topics with me (she wasn't doing this with other people). 'Gay people can have very happy relationships with their partners too... Gay Mardi Gras looks like fun...there's a lot less stigma these days about being Gay' etc. etc. etc. At first I thought maybe she was Gay or just very interested in Gay Culture. After a couple of conversations like this I was starting to get very bored and told her this. When her topics of conversation didn't change after that, the penny suddenly dropped. I gently explained to her that I wasn't Gay but that seemed to just make her even more convinced that I was even deeper in the closet. After that I just had to grin and bear it every time I met her as it seemed to have become her personal mission to persuade me to become 'a friend of Dorothy'.

    I moved job a while later and haven't seen her since. At least her heart was in the right place but she could have put all that energy into something more productive.
    Like finding me a woman.:D


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