Ok, weirdness most certainly ensued today at Pret – there’s me tripod underam (not a euphamism) at the cash desk trying to pay for my salad when out of nowhere a till-girl (not even *my* till-girl) ambushes me with a bizarre conversation I shall recount after the jump…
Her: “Is that a tripod under your arm?”
Me: “Yes”
Her: “Have you made a video for YouTube”
Me: “Er, well, um, yes actually now you mention it”
Her: “can I have your YouTube username so I can see it when its finished?”
Me: “Um, yeah, I guess…”
WTF, I mean like, OMG guys! Who does that?? Who asks for a YouTube username? I’m not even sure she was hitting on me! I mean don’t get me wrong I love that fact that YouTube’s utter ubiquity now means that peole see an amateur film-maker and assume YouTube and not MGM (she didn’t know though, I could’ve been the next Spielberg…) but c’mon – that is weird – non? What an odd little experience…
P.S. …and bless her, if I could read the username she scrawled on a peice of napkin I would add her, sadly I can’t, so I won’t.
You do know if she’s watching your YouTube video, she will be reading this… Incidentally, she seemed very nice.
Dude. That’s a come-on, surely? She didn’t want to see your video. She wanted to see your ‘video’…
Dan, i’m not sure you can pull of ‘dude’.
If indeed you are right and she wanted to see my ‘video’ I most certainly didn’t want to see hers (who wants beta-max when there is blu-ray – right?!)
As history will atest, I can ‘pull of a dude’ anytime I want.
(I was also going to question your use of ’till-girl’… what is this, the 1950s?)
But surely, ‘Citizen Kane’ on betamax is still better than ‘The Hottie and the Nottie’ on bluray? Content is all…