Apple Picking
Jun. 14th, 2006 09:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
penfieldWith the help of Craigslist I recently unloaded my 1994 Macintosh Performa 636 CD, my trusty college computer. My parents bought it for me as a freshman and it was practically obsolete by the time I was a sophomore -- my friends' PCs and PowerMacs would bully mine around, printing and taping "reboot me" to the back of my monitor -- though it was generally reliable for writing term papers and timidly navigating the still-nascent world of online pornography.
But it had been sitting in my closet for the two years since I bought a newer computer/paperweight, and it was about time I finally got rid of the thing. So I placed an ad this past weekend and I got three responses. Normally, I would give the first person to respond the right of first refusal. But his e-mail handle was "Tat2dpiercedguy," whereas the second guy to respond, an hour later, was named "Mike." I wrote back to Mike first, and he picked it up yesterday.
I don't have anything specifically against tattooed and pierced guys or gals. Some of my best friends are tattooed and/or pierced. But I have reservations about anyone who is so tattooed and pierced that he self-identifies as such. (It would be like me having the e-mail bald_n_insecure@hotmail.com.) I was just more comfortable dealing with a Mike. Does this make me some kind of a bigot? Am I a bad person?
But it had been sitting in my closet for the two years since I bought a newer computer/paperweight, and it was about time I finally got rid of the thing. So I placed an ad this past weekend and I got three responses. Normally, I would give the first person to respond the right of first refusal. But his e-mail handle was "Tat2dpiercedguy," whereas the second guy to respond, an hour later, was named "Mike." I wrote back to Mike first, and he picked it up yesterday.
I don't have anything specifically against tattooed and pierced guys or gals. Some of my best friends are tattooed and/or pierced. But I have reservations about anyone who is so tattooed and pierced that he self-identifies as such. (It would be like me having the e-mail bald_n_insecure@hotmail.com.) I was just more comfortable dealing with a Mike. Does this make me some kind of a bigot? Am I a bad person?
