Pain Don't Hurt

Today I was walking out of the barber shop and was stopped in the parking lot by this dude. He had been in the barber shop so when I walked out he was staring at me and he said “How’s it going?” At this point I went into my “A Stranger is Talking to Me. Say ‘What Up’ and Keep Walking” mode. So I said “What up?” and kept walking. But as I was walking by he is still trying to talk to me. In my head I would usually be thinking “oh great. what the fuck does this guy want?” But this was a kid who couldn’t have been older than 21 so I thought maybe he wanted some drugs or beer or something cool so I stopped and talked to him. This was me giving this kid his final exam he wasn’t ready for…oops

Me: What up?

College kid: Hey man how long you been coming to this barber shop?

Me: Well Jeff has been cutting my hair for about 20 years now.

College kid: Whoaaaa thats crazy. Do you work around here?

Me: Um I work at a beach club.

College kid: Which one?

Me: (I wonder if I should lie to him this is getting weird) The Seaside Club. What do you do?

College kid: I go to UNCW.

Me: Ummm whats your major?

College kid: I’m an entrepreneur.

Me: (I didn’t know that was a major. I’m getting kinda bored with this. When can I just walk away from someone talking to me? I’ll have to remember to ask my mom about that.)

College kid: I’m working with an engineer from NC State on a new energy drink.

Me: Oh cool (what does he need an engineer for? how many more fucking energy drinks do people need?!?!?)

College kid: And I’m working on assembling a team to get this product out there. Let me get your number…

He hands me a piece of paper and his wallet to bare down on (I should have just ran away with his wallet…lesson learned idiot). I write my  name and number down but after this next part I don’t think he will be calling.

Me: Soooo you need people to do cold call sales or something?

College kid: Yes this is a sales and marketing position but you would not be cold calling.

Me: So you already have a client list?

College kid: We can talk about it later.

Me: What differentiates your product from others already on the market?

College kid: What do you mean?

Me: I mean, why (the fuck) would people want your energy drink?

College kid: Uhhh we can talk all this over later.

Me: Ok dude. I gotta roll.

College kid: It’s a great opportunity.

Me: (Walking off) I’m sure it is man I’m sure it is.

Now this seems like not a very long conversation in a parking lot but this took almost 20 minutes of my life and there were a bunch of awkward pauses and stupid shit. I didn’t wake up today and think hey, I would like to go to the barber shop and try and get interviewed by some snot nosed college idiot who has no idea what the fuck he is doing. So I need to stop leaving the house. I really hope he calls.  I’ll keep spacklecube posted.

So tonight (I even spelled that right instead of my usual “tonite”) I was drinking and cooking out with some people. Everything was totally cool until one dude (a guy in his mid-forties probably) got a little too intoxicated and started to talk to me about religion. Now this would be fine except he was coming at me pretty hard. Those who know me know that I am not a very religious person, even though I was confirmed in my church. I was a Lutheran, by the way, whatever that means. So, in this what turned out to be a pretty heated discussion I tried to drop the science bomb on this dude but I am not very smart when it comes to science or religion so basically, I was just getting bombarded by this guy.

Religious guy: So do you believe in Jesus?

Me: I believe he probably existed but I’m not so sure about him being the son of God.

Religious guy: Do you believe in the “theory of gravity?”

Me: Yeah dude

Religious guy: Why?

Me: (Pick up some yard debris and drop it) That’s why

Religious guy: But can you see gravity?

Me: No, but I can’t really pick anything up and say that’s God

Religious guy: But thats just a theory. It’s called faith man. You have to believe.

Me: How old do you think the earth is?

Religious guy: 7000 years old. Carbon dating has even been disproved by scientists.

Me: And dinosaurs?

Religious guy: They were too ferocious and they probably missed the ark.

Me: Well I don’t really know how I can have blind faith. How do you feel about other religions?

Religious guy: Well, Buddha didn’t really exist and Mohammed was just a man.

Me: What if I said God didn’t exist and Jesus was just a man?

Religious guy: You would be wrong.

Me: Ok. (Finish my beer then exit hastily)

I don’t care what you believe but don’t push shit on me. I am a good person and I treat most people (aside from ozzie, zac, and cyrus) with respect. Believe what you want but fuck off. You don’t know me and you don’t why I don’t believe. Save your witnessing for some lost soul. That isn’t me dickhead. I just had to rant. I thought the spacklecube community would enjoy this. I don’t know how I always get roped into these situations. Fuck people. That is all.

Since NC has been having tornadoes or something

So Spacklecube is FINALLY back and my eyes are already killing me…..prepare for blindness!!!!!

this is the first image to come up when i googled "blind" (sorry)