Shiny San Francisco Stories: Becoming a cliche

[kellinator]

So my first full day in San Francisco, I was on Haight St. (motherfucking Haight-Ashbury!! motherfucker!!) feeling very cool when suddenly what the rest of y'all already knew hit me like a pillowcase full of bricks.

"I'm a boring person who dyed my hair purple so I would fit in out here!! Oh my gosh!! I'm a cliche!!"

gamgee's response was something along the lines of "Yes, we all knew that, but if we had said it it would have sounded mean."

Comments

[nanne.livejournal.com]

Embrace your clicheness! Who cares about being an individual? Trifle difficult with 6 billion of us on this planet. Better to be yourself. And if you wanted to dye your hair purple, and did it, more power to you. It's a very polite and decent thing to try to fit it, anyway. Miss Manners would be proud ;-)

[weaktwos.livejournal.com]

You didn't hit the nearest Hard Rock cafe and get a shot glass, did you?

[kellinator.livejournal.com]

Oh, no. Even I have to draw the line somewhere.

[weaktwos.livejournal.com]

Well there ya go. You haven't delved deeply into the pit of cliche, then.

[tikimama.livejournal.com]

I thought it was sadder that you want to dye your hair purple, but cannot allow yourself to do that in ATL, you had to wait until vacation.

Dye it!

[astrophysicat.livejournal.com]

Yes. Exactly. I have always wanted to dye my hair purple and have
never done it. So there. I am even more pathetic than you. Thbbpt. :P

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[kellinator.livejournal.com]

Well, I've got half a bottle of Special Effects Pimpin' Purple I can slap in the mail to you... ;)

[nanne.livejournal.com]

Please do. Send her that temptation. She will not resist.

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[kellinator.livejournal.com]

Keep encouraging me, and I'll throw in a bottle of bleach so the color will actually last longer than a week.

[nanne.livejournal.com]

Consider yourself encouraged. Please.

smurs

[tenn-crichton.livejournal.com]

Yup, a purple haired Cara.

don't be sad!

[daraflower.livejournal.com]

i blame society.

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[kellinator.livejournal.com]

Now I'm becoming very tempted to at least go Scully red... the problem with that is, I can't wear my pink lipsticks. And I like my pink lipsticks!!

[fairylogic.livejournal.com]

actually, the right shade of pink can look gorgeous with red hair. But I advise you to invest in a tube of deep, slutty red so you can work the whole redheaded sexpot look.

[whysoblue.livejournal.com]

Did you get your photo taken at the corner of H&A? Cause that's cliche to the max.

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[kellinator.livejournal.com]

Oh good grief, yes I did. I AM a cliche!! **runs off screaming**

[buckthorn.livejournal.com]

I had to stay there with a butch lesbian to fit in. Not sure if that's a cliche or not.

[alison-says.livejournal.com]

Well, I did the purple/pink/blue hair thing in high school, and then had to get a job. How's *that* for cliche?

[becala.livejournal.com]

I would argue that a boring person would not dye the hair purple in the first place.

What's more of a cliche: being crazy when you have the opportunity, or being someone like me who constantly tells herself she will manage to never have a job where she has to look normal? I've managed that thus far with 4 years of working in the Real World and 3 of being a College Student. Of course, when I had a Real Job I did not make that much money, but I was technically an IT professional. But we are no longer in the middle of the huge tech boom and I find it highly unlikely that when I enter the real world I will continue to be able to look like a freak and have a job.

So what I'm saying in my roundabout homework-procrastinating way is: We are all boring when we have to make a living. I think it takes more than being wacky when you're allowed to to make a cliche.