Jun 17 2008
Odd Man Out
This is my whiny post - the one where I go “oh poor pitiful me.” The subject of my whine? I am whining because sometimes I get tired of being odd, or as I would prefer to call it, “eccentric”.
Here are just a few examples: I don’t care most major sports and hate football. But I love soccer. I am from the Deep South, but do not like watermelon, iced tea, or collared greens. I really like trains, and would like to build a model railroad. But I like English trains. I keep looking and looking, but most newstands here in the US have stopped carrying British Railway Modelling and Railway Modeller. Could it be the exchange rate? Or the cost of gas to get them here? Even the magazines I can find about real (non-model) railways are about US ones, not English or European. I could go on about my love for strange British cars too, but I think you get the picture.
Oh, and lets not leave out the fact that I work in a very conservative office, in a very conservative industry, in a very conservative city, in a very conservative state. And I am very liberal. Sometimes the arguments are fun, but sometimes it makes me just want to give up and move.
So, do you ever feel like this? Other than those highschool years when you were sure that you were the only one who had ever felt the way you did, have you ever continually felt like odd man out? Or odd woman? What do you do about it? It would be very hard to switch, and more than a tad dishonest to yourself. So, as you keep plodding along on your own road, how to you keep your head up and keep a cheerful disposition?
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I am with you. Went to a convention last year in Portland, OR in the summer. Wow! Almost did not return. Odd gal out has become such a way of life, though. I wonder if I could handle the bliss of belonging. At least I’ve got a good fit at work. (sorry. that was not meant to be a downer for you.)
That train thing of yours is a little off, but we will glady support your British car mania with a 1973 MGB. It is calling your name from our garage.
@7th day - Hey! What is wrong with my trains? The ‘73 B sounds good though. I am currently looking for an MG B GT. The later the better. Would really like to find one of the late 1974 ones with the rubber bumpers. My first car ever was a 1971 MG B GT.
Thanks for the comment, and now your good fit was not a downer to me. Quite the opposite!
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