Chauvinists Live
I was walking home from work this afternoon and saw something I have yet to see in the 21st Century; a real, live chauvinist. At the corner of 17th Avenue (the famed ’Red Mile’) and 14th Street SW while waiting for the light to change, a woman in her late twenties, out for a jog, ran up from behind me. She was reasonably pretty, with a rather skimpy running outfit given that it’s April… in Calgary, which could easily still mean snow. In any case, she was certainly the nicest thing at this particular intersection.
After the light changed, she carried on with her run along 17th Avenue and I carried on with my walk home. As I finished crossing the intersection, I heard a series of “woo’s”. I looked up to see a white crew cab truck, typical of one you would see in construction or the oil patch, with a 40-something guy sticking his head out of the passenger window. And what was he wooing? Yup, the young woman jogger.
I never understand that mentality. Did the man honestly expect the woman to stop jogging and run after the truck? Or was the guy just trying to impress his friends? Although we’ve likely all done the ‘impress your friends’ thing, for most people that stops once you graduate from university. In any case, the chauvinists live. And it made me laugh. And to the woman’s credit, she just kept on jogging.
Wed, 12 Apr 2006 18:14 Posted in General
