Hot Guy likes to bullshit people. I don't know if it's an actor thing, a small town childhood thing or just some weird personality quirk, but for whatever reason, Hot Guy likes to get people to believe the most outrageous things. He once convinced a much younger girlfriend that there was an entire dance called the "Wang Chung" and that the song was about it.
Over the years, he has to tried to bullshit me as well, but it never works. I ALWAYS know. Sometimes it's because I am old and have a great memory for the '80's and sometimes I can just tell by the expression on his face. This is probably the real reason that we are married.
Which makes what happened last night a bit worrying.
We were watching The Newsroom, which is a great show if you have HBO access, like Aaron Sorkin dialogue and wish the news was actually fair and balanced. At one point, one character uses the term, "rube" to describe another character. After repeating the line for Hot Guy, who is going to need a hearing aid before he turns 40, he turned to me and said, "What's a rube?"
I giggled. I mean, my husband grew up on a dirt road outside of a small town in Kansas. With chickens. The first time I sat outside on his parents' deck, I kept hearing this noise. This low, sort of moaning but not human noise. It was the cows next door (how was I to know that they don't really say moo?). You could say that he grew up in Rube-ville.
I answered him and I couldn't stop laughing. For him not to know the word "rube", it was just too perfect. Suddenly I became suspicious. I asked him if he was fucking with me. It's not like it's an obscure word, right? I mean, my husband is educated and well read. Not a rube. Shouldn't he know what it means?
He refused to answer. For the first time since I've known him, I have NO IDEA whether he is bullshitting me or not. It is driving me crazy.
So I'm wondering, is "rube" so antiquated that only Aaron Sorkin and I use it? Or my husband full of shit?
Tell me, internets. Has he finally bullshitted me? Or do country boys not know about rubes?
2 comments:
I think if you're a rube you don't know you are, regardless of intelligence or education.
But I also think a bullshit artist will eventually dupe their partner.
Either way, I think Hot Guy won this round;)
He totally did. But he did confess last night that he didn't know what a rube was, so at least now I know.
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