The Like/Hate Thread

[Ashe]

Ok, as you guys know, I have strawberry blond hair. That's the name of the color, as faggish as that sounds. Its not "red" in the sense that if you actually stand me next to someone with red hair, you see an obvious difference. Very few people I deal with seem to have the common sense to make that observation.

Getting to the point, its obviously hilarious (/sarcasm) and super creative (/sarcasm) to associate ANYONE with the slightest red tint in their hair that also has a penis with either "the Shermanator" or "Carrottop", regardless of if your hair style is anything like those two individuals. So I get called this every single fucking day by random customers who think they are hilarious. This part I don't mind, as I'm trying to joke with the customers, but in doing this, they always go asshole mode and derail the entire convo so that everytime I walk up to ask them if they want something, its "SHHHEERMANATORRRR!" or something, ignoring me completely other than to ridicule me till I walk away.

Ok, well, this is fine, for random customers I likely won't deal with again.

Where it tends to get to the bullshit level is either some of my co-workers, people I work with every single day, that seem to, after nearly 6 years of me working there, not find the joke old and thus still repeat it. Every. Goddamn. Day. And the same repeat nightly regular customers that come in and are already hated for being "ten minutes before closing time" regulars that don't tip. Who have to yell across the building as soon as they see me (and everytime I pass by after), which derails my table.

Because after something like 9 years, the same joke that these same people repeat every single day is still funny? You mean, its physically impossible to beat a dead horse until its god damn soul is eradicated? Is it possible, that maybe, just maybe, the joke is ancient and someone could come up with some new material? I can forgive people that have just run into me for the first time and that's the best that their feeble, tiny, caveman minds can grasp for, but the same people? I totally get that these people, co-workers and asshole customers alike, just lack the brain capacity to move their though process along and find some other joke to associate every single human being with the slightest red tint in their hair to, but they don't, they just spew off yelling just the name of two pretty much ancient joke characters, and it sets them off as if Morgan Freeman just walked into the room yelling "SHOOT THAT MOTHERFUCKER!" (which is hilarious, btw, and an in joke again at work. But I wouldn't fucking repeat it every single day.)

Big annoying rant, I know, but seriously. After a while, the joke gets old, and I would like society to move on to the next method of ridiculing me (because while at first its just brotherly bonding between people over humor, after enough time that's all it becomes). Its as creative as taking a blond chick, no matter what her facial structure, body build, even her hair style or the fact that she's really a brown haired chick with blond highlights, and screaming "OMG TEH BRITNEY SPEARS!" everytime she walks past.

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TLDR: FUCK PEOPLE.

EDIT: I know some might think this is such a minor thing to get annoyed or pissed about. But just think about it. I'm sure everyone has things that people make the same exact joke about every day for years that regardless of how dumb the joke is, will eventually set them off everytime its mentioned. "OK GODDAMMIT I GET IT, YOU THINK YOU ARE QUAGMIRE SO YOU HAVE TO SAY GIGGITY EVERYTIME A GIRL WALKS BY AND THEN LOOK AROUND FOR APPROVAL, STFU!" (yelled by one of my friends to another a long time ago. I don't think he ever said it again. Was hilarious.)