Boys are dumb
My vocation (IT) means that I am often working in very male-orientated work spaces. Where I currently work, I am the only woman in my department. The boys I work with (they could not really be described as men for reasons that will become apparent) are nice enough, but they are, essentially, boys. Let me explain.
In my first week in the job, there were two empty drink bottles sitting in the window. One used to contain some sort of fruit drink, the other wheatgrass juice. They had been there for some days, and the boys had discovered that, when you removed the top from the bottle and took a whiff, that they had become quite 'ripe'. If these were sensible people, they would have thrown them out. Instead this become some sort of 'test' (of manhood or stupidity, I will never really know). They had left them in the window to assist the 'fruitiness' of the smell. Every morning they would dare each other to take a smell. Now, despite the fact I never took a smell, I knew these bottles (particularly the wheatgrass one) smelt bad. How did I know? One morning it had got so bad one of the guys was dry-retching after a sniff. And yet they persisted for another week before someone decided that it may be a good idea to throw out the bottles (you think??).
Topics of conversation also leave a lot to be desired. The main topics are cars (how fast they go), girls (how big their boobs are, and whether or not they'd give the page 3 girl of the Sun 'a go'), football (mostly what they would do if they were a player/coach) and finally speculation on who is a 'poof' (whether it be someone in the office or a celebrity. They are usually they are waaay off). But they out did themselves the other day. They were talking about a particular strip club that some of them wanted to go to, but they couldn't remember the name of it. Nothing particularly unusual about this until they describe the one 'feature' of this club that made it stand out from the others (and they reason they wanted to attend). Yes, this bar had a midget stripper. Now this isnt that bad, except half the guys then said they knew which club it was, and talked about when they had been. It was then talked about for 20mins while they discussed the various merits of this club. Yes, this is a normal work day.
And people wonder why I dont date men.....
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