Irritation...

[gmonkey42]

I'm at my crappy waste-of-time-I'd-be-better-off-teaching-myself programming class. Class hasn't started yet. So I got a soda from the vending macine and they don't have cans - all they have is bottles. And I can't open this $#@%#^! bottle. So, lest the boys in the class see me struggling to open it and offer to help, I went off to the women's bathroom, to see if running some hot water over the cap would help. It didn't. There was another woman in there, who's an administrator, and she offered to give it a try and I thought “yeah, right” because I'm pretty strong and if I couldn't do it- anyway, she tried and couldn't open it either, so she said (get ready for the irritating part) “we need a man.” No, we need a lever of some kind. Or something made of rubber, so we can get a better grip on the stupid, practically smooth little cap. So I said the whole reason I came to open it in the women’s room was so the guys wouldn’t see my trying and get all macho etc.

I didn't mention before: I'm one of only two women in the programming class and the teacher's pretty sexist. But the sexism manifests itself in these stupid, offhand little comments, so if I complain, I risk having him dismiss me as just another humorless feminist. Which I'm not. I'm a very humorous feminist. A humorous feminist with a blister on my thumb from trying to open that stupid bottle. And it's my pipettin' thumb too. At least I'm not working tomorrow. Screw it, I'll be able to open it when I get home.