Do people think you're weird?

[BTM]

Being "different" got me lots of dates when I was in school. Chicks digged that 

Well, that makes one of us. 

Course, in addition to weird, I was (and am) fat, another nice little separation barrier. 

[BTM]

Yes, yes, yes. 

My bosses think that I'm a freak of nature with my film knowledge.
My clients think I'm the greatest thing since sliced bread.
People a lot younger than me (teenagers and younger) think I'm weird but cool.

I can handle that. 

Who are your clients?  (That is, what do you do, and what is the general demographic of the people who work with?)

[BTM]

I don't know if they think I'm weird, but I'm sure I've surprised many people with my sense of humor which often involves me poking fun at sex, death, disease, violence, and racial issues.  I just blurt out politically incorrect comments whenever I think they might get a laugh.

Er gotten fired or in trouble at work for that?  Or do you mean mainly do that stuff off the clock?

Just curious...

[BTM]

Around here, no.   

Well, of course, not here.  Anyone calling someone else "weird' on this board would be like Don King telling someone they need to get a hair cut. 

But I mean in the "real" world. 

:)

[BTM]

Most of my interaction with people is an imitation of other social interaction I've observed.  The "rules" are not something I've ever been able to learn, but through a lifetime of trial-and-error I've finally arrived at a close enough approximation of "normal" behavior that I get by.

You know, I've had that problem too... usually when I'm in a new group, (like a new job or whatever) i just stay quiet till I learn what everyone is saying and the level of humor they're getting away with, then I may jump with some of my additions to the conversation.  But even then sometimes I get too comfortable and blurt out something that's just a bit too out there even for the current environment.

Er.. if that makes sense.

[BTM]

Only normal people think I'm weird...but who pays attention to them, right ?

Well I think you're weird, , does that make ME normal?

No. 

Regardless of the situation, the answer to that question is always, "no".

 

[RCMerchant]

Hmm. Yes. Very. Some say crazy. Not in a "cool" way. Ah well. Kay Sara Sara.

[El Misfit]

I'm weird and i'm DAMN proud of it!

[Mr. DS]

I'm weird but not a creepy weird so people tell me.  Just a bit eccentric. 

[Newt]

Another vote for "eccentric" here.  A bit odd; different.  I am told I intimidate people. Not intentionally - just by being the way I am.  Oh well.  I like being different.  "Normal" is dull and mediocre.

[Mr. DS]

We've all kind of mentioned personalities, how about physical appearance?  Most people are shocked at how twisted I am seeing I look average and don't go out of my way to look odd. 

[RCMerchant]

We've all kind of mentioned personalities, how about physical appearance?  Most people are shocked at how twisted I am seeing I look average and don't go out of my way to look odd. 

I'm 5'2". I'm 47 years old. I Have very long blond hair. I weigh 130 pounds. My perscription glassess are tined green. I wear factory pants or pajamas and button plaid shirts. I have an SS Deaths Head Corps pin and an FJA Ackermansion pin on my fishing hat. I sit out on the porch of the low rent apartment complex I live at-open the window-and drink whiskey and listen to the Dead Kennedys. The only people who talk to me is the Crazy Cat Ldy (she's psychic!) and druggies. I don't do drugs. When I invite these people into my home-they like my collection of Lugosi-Dracula stuff. My Lugosi yard light is a favorite. I like these people. They are nice to me-I'm nice to them. Not all drug addicts are evil scumbags. some are just like me....addicts who are inteeligent people who have a monkey on there back. So much stigma is put on us.....I'm an alchoholic. And I can understand that. But some of us reaaly don't like it. We are smart,hard working folks...with an addiction. It's a hard monkey to beat.

[RCMerchant]

I'll probely catch hell for my comments...but walk a mile in my shoes. You would understand.

[LilCerberus]

I asked somebody about it this afternoon.
They thought for a moment, then told me I've "fallen off the radar."

The Cult of Personality needs a new god or two.

[Trevor]

Yes, yes, yes. 

My bosses think that I'm a freak of nature with my film knowledge.
My clients think I'm the greatest thing since sliced bread.
People a lot younger than me (teenagers and younger) think I'm weird but cool.

I can handle that. 

Who are your clients?  (That is, what do you do, and what is the general demographic of the people who work with?)

I'm a film archivist [a job I've done 20 years in December 2009] and I deal with all sorts of people on a daily basis, film people (those who make 'em), people such as my family on this board (the people who like 'em) and basically anyone who has an interest in film or just remembers a film from wayyyyy back and would like to see it again.

As Al Pacino would say: "That's my life."