Today is "Open Commentary on Sabs' Life" Day, and no one told me

[sabotabby]

Midsummer Night's Dream is fabulous, people. Go see it. Truly weird music, gorgeous staging, and it's lots of fun.

However, on the cab ride home, the driver saw fit to hold forth on my life or lack thereof. Apparently I should get married. I should go home and sleep and then propose to my boyfriend. Every religion says so. Otherwise sex is a sin. Then he gave me a copy of the Qur'an. I told him that I already had one (I actually think that I have more than one) but I don't think he believed me, even though I said goodbye to him in Arabic. He told me to give the Qur'an to my mom.

*sigh* Do I really seem like I need this much help with my life?

Comments

[springheel-jack.livejournal.com]

I need a Qur'an.

[sabotabby]

I got extras now. If you e-mail me your address I'll send you one. It'll be like an underground economy of free Qur'ans.

[finding-rowan.livejournal.com]

Same here.

[one-serious-cat.livejournal.com]

You're a much nicer person than I am. I can tell just be reading this post.

[sabotabby]

Well, I didn't convince him that his God didn't exist. I've done that to people before. But he was an old man and I only do that to young people.

[one-serious-cat.livejournal.com]

That seems eminently sensible to me.

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

Do I really seem like I need this much help with my life?

Religious folk do that to everyone. Don't take it personally. It doesn't mean you are sending out "I need help" vibes. The only way to avoid it is to be threatening looking or unfriendly. Think of it as the being friendly tax.

[jvmatucha.livejournal.com]

I suppose this isn't the time to try to convince you to become a follower of Kahless, is it?

I was even gonna get you your own bat'leth!

[marnanel.livejournal.com]

I want to do all this, except I would replace the names "God" and "Jesus" with, say, "Emma Goldman". "Excuse me, I'd like to talk to you about EMMA GOLDMAN, if I may. Have you received EMMA GOLDMAN into your life? I'd like to give you this book about EMMA GOLDMAN." I'd even leave them in hotels.

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

I have a friend who, like sabotabby, has a bit of a Soviet motif. He always carries a copy of the Communist Manifesto with him. One day, he ran into two Mormons who did their spiel and offered him their book. (You can see where this is going.) He graciously accepted and said, "And now that I have accepted your book, I would like to offer you mine," and talked Marx at them until they awkwardly excused themselves.

[mistersmearcase.livejournal.com]

*note to self to do this with gay pr0n*

[courtly.livejournal.com]

combine them!

The Communist MAN-ifesto!

[courtly.livejournal.com]

or would that be "Sausage-Fest-o"?

[rojonoir.livejournal.com]

THIS

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[marnanel.livejournal.com]

I should go home and sleep and then propose to my boyfriend. Every religion says so. Otherwise sex is a sin.

So now I've proposed to my boyfriend I can have sex with anyone I like without sinning at all?

Re: also

[caprinus.livejournal.com]

LOL nice.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Glad you enjoyed "Dream". I love the music. I needed to know whether this production was any good. COC is so hit and miss.

[mistersmearcase.livejournal.com]

You must have seemed happy after your review. Religion can smell happiness and begins plotting feverishly to ruin it immediately upon detection.

[pofflewomp.livejournal.com]

Can you convince me god doesn't exist?
I waver between atheism and believing in god but thinking he's a bastard!
I think you must have looked very attractive so he thought you must have lots of boyfriends. I like the idea of converting him to Marx/ Emma Goldman in return! Good one!

[apperception.livejournal.com]

sabotabby you so skinny howa you gonna get a husband you so skinny?

[kappsgurl.livejournal.com]

Ever since Taxi Cab Confessions, every Taxi driver thinks they are instant therapists.

[fr-defenestrato.livejournal.com]

Trying to convert people to idiotic belief systems is not therapy. It should be a felony.

[ltmurnau.livejournal.com]

My son is in Grade 9 and they are doing A Midsummer Night's Dream in his English class. I don't know what version of the play they showed them. It's his first introduction to Shakespeare and I think he might have liked Hamlet, Macbeth, or Richard III better, since they are plays full of revenge, lust ambition and murders. At least then I could have shown him the cool 1995 Richard III with Ian McKellen in that weird 1930s proto-fascist Britain....

[fr-defenestrato.livejournal.com]

Kill witnesses now.

[terry-terrible.livejournal.com]

It sounds like that guy needs help with his life.

[seilduksgata.livejournal.com]

Ha ha, I had an African Muslim cabbie after 2nd night seder this year and when he discovered where I'd been, he proceeded to hold forth on the nature of God and the advantages of Islam over Judaism for my entire cab ride, then parked up at the destination and carried on talking. I considered breaking it to him that God wasn't, in fact, the main motivation for being at the seder, but thought this idea was probably culturally incomprehensible to him...

[shelestel.livejournal.com]

You possess a quality which, according to one philosopher, Lenin possesses in Mikhail Romm's "Lenin in October" (this I can't judge, haven't seen the movie), and Winnie the Pooh has in the Russian cartoon version by the same director (Pooh's character there is very different than the one in Milne's book). It consists of a combination of extreme fragility and vulnerability and very high confidence, determination and occasional ruthlessness. Both these sides are very markedly manifested. It is, of course, a very endearing combination, as the Soviet public well knows. Occasionally, something done or said with your forceful side in mind will hit your sensitive side, like, I'm speculating, in what was described in your previous post.