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Jul. 30th, 2009 08:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
f4f3I haven't said enough about the fantastic time I had this weekend at K's surprise 40th. Fantastic food, great company (not limited to, but starring his mum and dad, and the first time I've ever met his brother and sister - and we've known each other for about 18 years) and reasonable weather.
Something that bubbled it's way up through my consciousness today, though, was remembering that someone at the surprise birthday dinner was sarcastic to me. Out of the blue, really, and I can't remember being so embarrassed since the last time I was at my son's school assembly. It was just so... naive. I mean, here we are in an environment alive with understatement, irony, self-mockery, and the best you can do is sarcasm? It was like a homage to Heathers, and for a tiny moment I put it down to that, but she was serious. And blond, and very privileged. To misquote Warren Zevon, "Little Miss Bun To A Knife Fight".
I put it down to private school education...
Something that bubbled it's way up through my consciousness today, though, was remembering that someone at the surprise birthday dinner was sarcastic to me. Out of the blue, really, and I can't remember being so embarrassed since the last time I was at my son's school assembly. It was just so... naive. I mean, here we are in an environment alive with understatement, irony, self-mockery, and the best you can do is sarcasm? It was like a homage to Heathers, and for a tiny moment I put it down to that, but she was serious. And blond, and very privileged. To misquote Warren Zevon, "Little Miss Bun To A Knife Fight".
I put it down to private school education...
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Date: 2009-07-31 10:43 am (UTC)