Brandon O
Puzzled by facies
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What's your approach when you get the cocktail party question? "What's the craziest/grossest/etc thing you ever seen?"
So if you go to a party, or something, people want to hear, you know, 'Oh, what's the grossest thing you've ever seen, man?' People want to hear it but to an extent, sometimes you want to tell it, sometimes you don't. You get a feeling that either you're just gonna come off sounding like a rescue geek, 'Oh, yeah, one time, I remember...' Or, you don't want to come off sounding like an a-hole, one of those, 'Oh, man, my job's so rough, I don't want to talk about it.' So you're caught in a catch-22. You either talk about the job and tell people everything they want to hear, and you run the risk of sounding like some kind of dweeb, whose only real thing in life is, 'The time I went Code 3 for whatever.' Or you sound like some kind of stuck-up a-hole who's so hung on himself that, 'Oh, my job's so rough, I can't talk about it.' And, in reality, people like that want you to ask you about it, they want you to drag it out of them, 'Come on, man, share, tell us!' F-ck you, whatever! So, either way, you run the risk of sounding kind of like an a-hole. (Tangherlini)