Thursday, August 28, 2008

The 5 Best Buddies Stereotype in Motion

I am beginning to realise that I am starting to have a habit of listening in on other people's conversations. Well... not really all the time, per se, but simply when I am bored or have nothing better to do and what you're talking about seems really interesting or that YOU'RE TALKING SO LOUD THAT I JUST CAN'T HELP OVERHEARING, are the times when I find myself privy to personal details of other people's lives/nonsensebabblechatter etc. etc.

Other people = Those group of tiny ohgoshsoadorable Sec 1 VS guys

I don't mean "adorable" in the "wow, that guy is cute, date me prz" sense, but just simply adorable cute. No, really, they don't even look like they're in Sec 1. They're all primary-school sized and they still have that innocent kiddish air about them.
There does seem to be a recent trend of the sec 1 batches this year all still looking like they're fresh out of primary school... I don't know. Maybe it's just me.

What caught my attention about these group of guys at first was that they seemed to have stepped out of a book. Specifically, that they have the whole Fictional 5-Boys Best Buddies Gang thing going. They even have five of the stereotypical archetypes!
1) Nerdy, bookish type
2) The Joker
3) The Tall Loud One
4) Feisty Smart Ass
5) The Wallflower

The first one that stepped into the bus was No 1. And here I have to point out that he's not really the Classic Nerd but rather The Guy who Reads Shonen Jump and Bumps Into Stuff Because He's Too Engrossed.

Because he would've continued walking right on to the end if it wasn't for his friends who all kind of yelled and formed a human barrier to sort of close him in and usher him to a seat.

They had to do the same thing again when he left.

Here's the thing, No 1, does not and I mean DOES NOT EVER look up from the Shonen Jump mag he's reading. Even when No 3 sort of reached over to look and went all,
"Tch'. Why are you reading this? It's so outdated. You can find all the chapters online anyway."
"........"

That aside, I'm now only going to be concentrating on No 3 and 4. Because it was just all about them at that moment in time. If this was a slice-of-life series starring all 5 as the protaganists, this would be the episode arc about 3 and 4.

They got into a fight apparently. Because 4 wants 3 to do something about his intimidating way and how he just forces people to his opinions and it's no wonder that the whole class is scared of him and stuff like that.

"You just don't get it! He didn't answer you because he didn't want to. What was he supposed to say? You know, you just can't get a hint. When people don't answer after a long time, it's because they don't want to. They don't want to talk to you! This is why so many people find you intimidating. You don't know when to back down."

"Oh yeah?" No 3 was lost for words here so he just went again, "Oh yeah?"

And then he decided to bring up some earlier incident of which I didn't really understand the details but it had something to do with the Mrt Station and they started squabbling again and then when things got really heated up the entire conversation took a 180 degree turn when No 3 sort of wilted and said in a hurt voice,

"Well, if you don't want to talk to me, just say so then."

"*frustrated* It's not that I don't want to talk to you! I do! It's just that sometimes, you have days where you just want some time to yourself and you don't feel like talking at all and you have to get the hint when that happens..."

"*wilts further*"

"Oh what the hell- Look, I'm sorry ok? Ok?"

And then they made up and everything was fine and dandy. XD

I am not making this up. All of this really happened. I have to add here that at this point I was looking out of the window with this huge child-eating grin on my face which would have surely freaked out the passer-bys outside.

Hai...young friendship. It's so innocent and sparkling. I had no idea until now that guys had these kind of conversations too.

3 comments:

Renaissance Publishing said...

Hey! You didn't talk about type no. 5! And I thought wallflower anyway was meant more for girls as a category?

Chuckles...

salemtrials said...

Wallflower's not really a cool designation is it? Maybe I should've have gone with Silent and Mysterious instead...
But oh well.

The Joker himself is not actually the typical funny guy type. Only that he's the kind of guy who's laughing all the time to bring a more positive note to the situation...pacifying things and such. But The Pacifyer was a bit...Um. Well.

lse said...

LOL. I swear, you just made my day. Ok, not really, but you managed to entertain five minutes of my life. i'm so bookmarking this.