i understand these are the sorts of negative cultural assumptions that all sorts of people have imposed on them all the time. but this one bothers me. because it's talking about me.
from the times' critical shopper column--(normally my favorite part of the paper):
It was one of those touching but ultimately really pathetic conversations between men in which they say one thing ("I like the 12- or 15-inch headset wrench, but you can just as well go for the adjustable spud wrench") but mean another ("I wish my dad had taken me to more baseball games as a child instead of spending all those Sunday afternoons with my mother's best friend").
