I thought once I started working at the university that it would be different. I imagined intelligent academic types. I am having to radically reset my imaginings.
Case in point: This morning one of the American sociology lecturers walked past my desk and saw the mango I had sitting on a pile of papers. He asked what it was, and I said "uhhhh it's a mango" and he said he had never actually seen a mango before, he had only eaten "mango flavoured things". And I said "they smell really good, don't they?" and he stands behind me and puts his hands on my shoulders and says "I would love to smell your mangoes".
Separate from obvious repulsiveness, what kind of 40 year old man has never seen a mango?
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Re: do you know how to spell caPAciTAtor?
Date: 2009-11-13 02:48 am (UTC)Case in point: This morning one of the American sociology lecturers walked past my desk and saw the mango I had sitting on a pile of papers. He asked what it was, and I said "uhhhh it's a mango" and he said he had never actually seen a mango before, he had only eaten "mango
flavoured things". And I said "they smell really good, don't they?" and he stands behind me and puts his hands on my shoulders and says "I would love to smell your mangoes".
Separate from obvious repulsiveness, what kind of 40 year old man has never seen a mango?