Friday, November 17, 2006
Overheard in the cafeteria
"You know, women are just like cars. They both come with strings attached." - some hairy guy in a cheap suit, to a companion.
...whaaaaaaaaaaaaa?
- I can see that this gentleman probably has relationship issues.
- What kind of car comes with a string?!
- For that matter, there's a whole world of social awkwardness in considering women and strings together, but since I am a gentleman I am so not going there.
- As a simile/metaphor... it doesn't even make sense!
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Does the guy mean both cars and women have unknown issues? An example would be dealing with the salesmen to buy a car could the string, or one is not sure if it is a lemon or not.... And with women the string would be their "baggage" and "hidden agendas."
Not "strings" as in the twine to bind the idiot up before he goes on making similes and metaphors about women and other odd industrial made machines!
Not "strings" as in the twine to bind the idiot up before he goes on making similes and metaphors about women and other odd industrial made machines!
I don't want to get all technical here, but the original metaphor was "with strings attached" - where you'd see a coin, say, laying on the ground, but when you reached to pick it up, someone would yank the until-then-unseen string and it would fly away.
That's why I'm saying the metaphor doesn't make sense to me. If you take the metaphor at it's actual meaning, and apply it to the man's statement - what, are his cars always being stolen right before he buys one? Do women meet him, then suddenly ignore him and go out with other men? If so, the guy's got my sympathy.
I get what he thinks he's saying, though, which is what you're talking about - baggage, a hidden agenda, flaws that don't show up until you're already entangled.
Maybe those entanglements are the strings to which he's referring?
And I have now officially spent about a zillion times more time thinking about this than he did, I'm sure. It's what I do here.
That's why I'm saying the metaphor doesn't make sense to me. If you take the metaphor at it's actual meaning, and apply it to the man's statement - what, are his cars always being stolen right before he buys one? Do women meet him, then suddenly ignore him and go out with other men? If so, the guy's got my sympathy.
I get what he thinks he's saying, though, which is what you're talking about - baggage, a hidden agenda, flaws that don't show up until you're already entangled.
Maybe those entanglements are the strings to which he's referring?
And I have now officially spent about a zillion times more time thinking about this than he did, I'm sure. It's what I do here.
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