When you were "that guy/girl" and you tried to pretend that you weren't

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When my cellphone rang during the final five minutes of a ponderous art movie and I let the people behind me get into a screaming argument and blame each other for it, rather than rummage around in my bag to switch it off.

― Under the paving stones, Paul Scholes (nordicskilla), Friday, 17 February 2006 23:28 (nineteen years ago)

No.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 17 February 2006 23:30 (nineteen years ago)

yes.

― Under the paving stones, Paul Scholes (nordicskilla), Friday, 17 February 2006 23:30 (nineteen years ago)

dude....that's some evil shit!

― ryan (ryan), Friday, 17 February 2006 23:31 (nineteen years ago)

That is the *only* time I've ever forgot to switch it off and I wouldn't have got to it in time anyway.

I know

― Under the paving stones, Paul Scholes (nordicskilla), Friday, 17 February 2006 23:31 (nineteen years ago)

Basically, anytime I'm talking on a cellphone while not seated or standing.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 17 February 2006 23:32 (nineteen years ago)

I wasn't gonna turn around and go "hey guys! It's me! I'm sorry" and have two screaming couples turn on me at once.

― Under the paving stones, Paul Scholes (nordicskilla), Friday, 17 February 2006 23:32 (nineteen years ago)

Can someone else post something they did so I don't look like such a jerk?

― Under the paving stones, Paul Scholes (nordicskilla), Friday, 17 February 2006 23:34 (nineteen years ago)

guys?

― Under the paving stones, Paul Scholes (nordicskilla), Friday, 17 February 2006 23:34 (nineteen years ago)

hello?

― Under the paving stones, Paul Scholes (nordicskilla), Friday, 17 February 2006 23:34 (nineteen years ago)

please

― Under the paving stones, Paul Scholes (nordicskilla), Friday, 17 February 2006 23:34 (nineteen years ago)

― Under the paving stones, Paul Scholes (nordicskilla), Friday, 17 February 2006 23:35 (nineteen years ago)

last night i got drunk and lost my coat check ticket and had to physically get into the booth to rummage around for my coat. i was "that guy" and there was no pretending i wasn't.

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 17 February 2006 23:35 (nineteen years ago)

not bad

can you give me something more?

something where you hurt someone, preferably.

― Under the paving stones, Paul Scholes (nordicskilla), Friday, 17 February 2006 23:36 (nineteen years ago)

what was your ringtone? i'm really hoping crazy frog (xpost)

― Tehrannosaurus HoBB (the pirate king), Friday, 17 February 2006 23:36 (nineteen years ago)

no, just generic.

― Under the paving stones, Paul Scholes (nordicskilla), Friday, 17 February 2006 23:37 (nineteen years ago)

key question: what movie?

― ryan (ryan), Friday, 17 February 2006 23:39 (nineteen years ago)

I ripped a gnarly one on a Greyhound and had a bunch of teenage girls giggling and speculating who cut the cheese. I was 'that guy.'

― andy --, Friday, 17 February 2006 23:42 (nineteen years ago)

I don't own a cellphone. I have been known to fart though.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 17 February 2006 23:46 (nineteen years ago)

ok: my friend has a friend who is in a band that i used to like in university. last night she introduced me to a dude named r@ju and i drunkenly assumed he was the guy. r@ju (rightfully) busted my balls: "no dude, that's s@mir, i know it's crazy but she has more than one brown friend!"

later, while talking to r@ju, i brought up a mutual acquaintence who at last report was pregnant. i asked about the baby and r@ju gave me the old icksnay throat-cutting move -- she had a miscarriage!

'that guy' was on fire last night. literally.

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 17 February 2006 23:48 (nineteen years ago)

can someone else post something they did so i don't look like such a jerk?

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 17 February 2006 23:57 (nineteen years ago)

Crickets chirp. Tumbleweed rolls by. Coyotes yelp in the distance.

― andy --, Friday, 17 February 2006 23:59 (nineteen years ago)

guys?

― mark p (Mark P), Saturday, 18 February 2006 00:00 (nineteen years ago)

S@mir from Ottawa?

― Sundar (sundar), Saturday, 18 February 2006 01:01 (nineteen years ago)

last night i got drunk and lost my coat check ticket and had to physically get into the booth to rummage around for my coat. i was "that guy" and there was no pretending i wasn't.

hah, i did this on new year's, but change "lost" to "wasn't even given in the first place"

― joseph (joseph), Saturday, 18 February 2006 01:33 (nineteen years ago)

i used to frequently be "that guy" who doesn't turn down the volume on his headphones when entering crowded elevators/subway, but i'm making progress now.

― joseph (joseph), Saturday, 18 February 2006 01:36 (nineteen years ago)

i can't think of many instances where i tried to pretend i wasn't "that guy" though. i either accept it with shame and do nothing or remain totally ignorant of it.

― joseph (joseph), Saturday, 18 February 2006 01:38 (nineteen years ago)

S@mir from Ottawa?

I thought the same thing!

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 18 February 2006 01:38 (nineteen years ago)

Sundar, I know him. Samir is awesome! He lives in TO now:) x-post

― scout (scout), Saturday, 18 February 2006 01:39 (nineteen years ago)

does farting in group of friends while not admitting, counts?

― garcielf, Saturday, 18 February 2006 01:54 (nineteen years ago)

oh god. now i'm 'that guy' on this thread too.

― mark p (Mark P), Saturday, 18 February 2006 02:36 (nineteen years ago)

I have been at Wal-Mart and called to see if my parents want me to get them anything ("Do you want me to pick up the special cat food for the cat? Should I get a 5 or 8 pound bag?")

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Saturday, 18 February 2006 02:49 (nineteen years ago)

I hear that in Iran they cut the hands off people whose phones go off in cinemas or concert halls.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Sunday, 19 February 2006 10:57 (nineteen years ago)

one time i was making out with a girl and i saw one of my housemates (also a girl) and punched her in the face (hard enough to knock her over), and then immediately went back to making out. i was blacked out-- but my going back to making out was i guess an attempt to make it seem like i wasnt THAT GUY who had just PUNCHED A GIRL IN THE FACE WTF

(both the punchee and the kissee and i have since resolved our differences and are the BEST of friends. actually the punchee is a regular ILM lurker)

― nervous (cochere), Sunday, 19 February 2006 11:57 (nineteen years ago)

Several xposts... Good god, my first thought was S@mir from Ottawa too! (Anyone got the new album?)

Anyway. This isn't much of a follow-up to nervous' post, but I used to work at C@rleton U, taping the lectures that were shown on air later for distance education students. My cell phone once rang (I thought it was on vibrate) while I was running the camera during a law lecture, and 100 people all looked at me, and the lecturer said "was that you? Our cameraperson's cell phone just rang" and then launched into an on-air rant about the evils of cell phones. I wished to die (but very, very quietly).

― Surfer_Stone_Rosalita (Surfer_Stone_Rosalita), Sunday, 19 February 2006 12:17 (nineteen years ago)

I just cleaned out a lunchbox that has been sitting behind the bin in my bedroom for about eight months with a scotch egg inside it.

I've known the scotch egg was there since I last took the lunchbox to work eight months ago, and have known it was behind the bin all this time. I was just both too scared and too lazy to open the thing up.

For eight months I have been "that guy".

― melton mowbray (adr), Sunday, 19 February 2006 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

I "littered."

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Sunday, 19 February 2006 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

this = the story of my life. :-(

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 19 February 2006 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

i might as well change my name to THAT GUY.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 19 February 2006 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, but as Abba sang once, "Anybody could be that guy"

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 20 February 2006 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

I surreptiously tied together the shoelaces of a boy who had been teasing me at school - he got up, fell over, and I did think it was highly amusing until the teacher decided to keep back the whole class until the culprit confessed. I didn't confess.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 20 February 2006 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

until the teacher decided to keep back the whole class until the culprit confessed. I didn't confess.

This happened to me pretty much weekly at school. I don't have much of a conscience though, so found it hilarious.

― melton mowbray (adr), Monday, 20 February 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

nervous, did your housemate say something to provoke you? Or was this just something you did with each other?

― Sundar (sundar), Monday, 20 February 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

Ah yes. Archie, my favourite bit of windup merchantry in school was to make authentic gum-chewing noises. The teacher would scream at us that someone was chewing, do a mouth check, hear more chewing the second she showed me the back of her head, repeat until bored. Never, ever caught.

In 9th grade my friends and I decided we'd had enough hassle from this boy with a locker opposite the place we used to sit each day. One girl was the cousin of a Manson Family member so the red lipstick on the locker said HELTER SKELTER SQUEAKY SAYS DIE!!! the following day. "Who did this?" snaps hall monitor to gaggle of girls ALL wearing red lipstick. Girls look around each other, give hall monitor 'concerned' faces. "We're a bit worried, he's always doing stupid things to get attention."

As to being that girl, the funniest is the stomach growl at the moment of silence in just about every funeral I've ever attended.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 20 February 2006 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

Sundar: well she had been a little violent with me in the past aha but the real problem was that 2 weeks previous i had gotten black-out drunk (pattern emerging) and cheated on my girlfriend with her. leading to my girlfriend breaking up with my when i confessed as much. i didnt just punch her, i stood up and yelled "YOU RUINED MY LIFE" and punched her. apologies abounded the next morning

― nervous (cochere), Monday, 20 February 2006 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

sometimes i feel like the only parts of my life i reveal on ILE are the terrible ones-- you must all think i'm a horrible person but i swear on average i am quite nice

― nervous (cochere), Monday, 20 February 2006 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

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