Wednesday, September 8, 2010

dumb gay kids or worried gay kids?

Awakening on the plane this afternoon was like every other day. I had been awake for 13 hours(12 of which were work) and had just landed after a 30 minute flight, and as usual I had fallen deep asleep prior to the customary safety talk. The guy next to me had presumed I was just pretending to sleep(or he was just a ass) and had lent over to say "fuck you'd think these cunts would work this shit out considering we do it every fucking day", not the best sound to wake up to but none the less i was awake. He was talking about how every day we land at the same time but for  different reason every time it takes around 45 minutes for our bus to collect us off the tarmac. It's a drag but we are all getting paid and we are only heading back to camp anyway there isn't much back there. The fella next to me didn't say anything after that, he just sat an scoffed every few minutes making it clear that he wasn't Happy with the situation.

The steward at the front of the plane was a maybe 19 year old boy from Perth, he was as gay as my tap jazz classes in grade 4 had hope to make me, this bothered me not in the slightest. However I was wide awake and bored so i eavesdropped a little on his and the stewardesses conversation. At first nothing great some home and away gos a little politics which i don't understand so cant judge on and some general fellow workers slagging. This was all well and good until he started talking about really stupid stuff....like asking what the flag was on the side of the V Australia planes were and how impressive his friends sit covers were..... there was so much of this type talk but i sort of blacked out and cant remember the gold stuff but it was bad. It made me remember sitting in the spa one night on the sunshine coast and there was a gay dude and his friend in there and they were talking about being afraid of the crocs in the maroochy river and typical dumb teen gay stuff. It made me semi annoyed for a second i couldn't pick up on the link between the gay cliche and stupidity and ignorance.

I spent the next couple of hours thinking about this because there was nothing more interesting that had happened to me since and it finally dawned on me!?! these teen queens had spent the time that most of us had spent learning worrying about what their fathers or friends were going to think of them... they spent this time shitting themselves, and within a dawning i had another dawning. Was the general old school disapproval of homosexuality to blame for these guys only just starting to ask the stupid questions we all asked in primary school, now? And all of a sudden i went from annoyed with the dumbness of this guy to feeling utterly sorry for him.... these guys weren't dumb they were just finally getting the chance to learn.

In closing if a homosexual guy asks u can fat people go skinny-dipping? be sympathetic and explain the explanation.



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