2006-01-28 - 6:48 p.m.
I would like to label the most obnoxious thing of the weekend when people are reading something and laugh out loud but not because they think such and such a thing is funny. It’s obnoxious when they laugh just so that you’ll ask them about it. They’ll laugh and you’ll be like, “Oh, what’s so funny?” and they’ll be like, “Oh, nothing,” and you’re like, “Oh come on, tell me!” and they’re like, “Well, my friend just wrote me this letter and said, ‘Can you believe how gross spaghetti is sometimes? It’s SO GROSS!’” And the person just keeps laughing and is like, “I can’t believe it—my friend is so frickin’ hilarious” and you pray that you never meet that friend because you’d punch them in the face.
I’ve gotten to the point now where if I hear someone do that purposeful laugh, the one they want to bait and hook you with, or even when they read if they say something like, “OH NO! I CAN’T BELIEVE IT!” or “GASP. Y AY!” or “Wow, that was really beautifully written,” I’ll just ignore them. And you know who the superfakers are when you don’t react and they make another comment like, “Wow. That is just…wow. I mean…” and tilt their head a little bit your ways as if requesting for a second time that you feed their need to share. Does it make me a jerk that I refuse to be roped into it? I just keep sitting there like I never heard anything at all, while their friend’s stupid spaghetti comment sit their on the computer screen while I keep typing.
Also, have you heard Kate Bush laugh? It just might be one of the most terrifying and pretty things in the world. I didn’t know if you heard, but I just wanted to let you know.
