The Familiar

[dotinthesky]

I was at my gym last evening, using the chest machine, when a guy stopped in front of me. He had a pony tail and a hair net, big mothafucka muscles and a bottle probably containing the latest creatine/muscle-regenerator product. He asked if he could take turns with me and, when I stood up, he laughed at my T-shit. My T-shirt says "Evil begets Evil, Good begets Good". He liked that.

Later, when I was exercising my shoulders, he came up to me and, in all seriousness, said 'Your T-shirt says on its front "Evil begets Evil and Good begets Good", but what it should say in the back is "Familiarity breeds Contempt". I smiled nervously back and told him I'd get the slogan added to my T-shirt.

Was he having a go at me? Or was he making a comment on what it's like to use a gym every single day of your life?

Comments

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Yes... after all, he wasn't angry or threatening or even pissed off. We were just chatting - the T-shirt's slogan probably got him thinking and he thought it would be neat to share that with me. :-)

[naturalbornkaos.livejournal.com]

You're probably right.

Of course, if you now DON'T get it added to the back, as you said you would, he'll kick your ass.

(Of course, my image of him is probably way scarier than he is, thanks to my misreading of the latest creatine/muscle-regenerator product as "the latest creature-muscle-regenerator product".)

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

He was a bit scary, in that he was slightly vacant in the eyes - ya know?

[geosh.livejournal.com]

Or was he suggesting a person who (albeit implicitly) condemns evil only knows it too well?!?!?! God, I have no idea. What a weird, and kind of either amazing or just silly thing. This is gonna bother me. You have to ask him next time you're at the gym what he meant!

[geosh.livejournal.com]

(I can't imagine my take on knowing evil makes you hate it, or whatever, is even remotely close, the more I think about it)

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

That's why I was confused... it sounded to me like he was adding a comment to what was said on my T-shirt, and that it implied something about those original statements as well as the place we were (the gym). But what exactly he meant... I'm still not sure.

[decussation.livejournal.com]

Lol - Familiarity breeds contempt is one of my catchphrases.. and if I were him I'd would just be trying to share with you something that I valued... ideas.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

I think that's very possible. It was probably just his way of being friendly.

[blu-bear.livejournal.com]

Yeah I doubt it was anything actually aimed at you. Especially if he was vacant in the eyes, he probably couldn't cope with giving hints and being subtle.