The best part being is that her girlfriend seems to be equally enamoured with her. So it came as a bit of a surprise - or really just something I didn't need to hear - when Kez proclaimed, "I have already told Bec, if she wants kids, its a deal breaker".
And there were those words - deal breaker.
The words themselves leave no room for compromise. Cut and dry, pure and simple, clinical and unemotional. Ok, I am not silly, something like having kids is not something you just compromise - but its the idea of the "deal breaker" that I am referring to.
When I was younger I had a few deal breakers of my own. Back then, as far as I could see, I would never be able to fall in love with a man who:
- drove a ute / hotted up car
- listened to heavy metal
- didn't like the Beatles
- really liked football (league)
- heckled
- had number plates that spelt out a word or phrase
- had an offensive nickname
Of course, overtime, I realised that my deal breaker list was full of only superficial things that alas, I might not know until I was already well interested in the boy ... or perhaps even in love with the boy. For example, not too long ago I was faced with this dilemma - and it really wasn't a dilemma at all. I was in the audience for some stand up comedy with a man I particularly fancy, and discovered that he was a heckler. Not your run of the mill "tell us a joke" heckler, but a heckler nevertheless. It turns out though, that he was a supportive heckler, and to my surprise, I loved it. I guess I have to strike that one off the list. I would go so far as to say, that if I found out he had a secret love of The Footy Show, that I wouldn't mind ... afterall I secretly cried like a baby throughout the film "Enchanted".
I wonder though, why no one ever really says "If you are a racist, misogynist pig, then that's a deal breaker".
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Hello Miss Seinfeld
What is the deal with that comment?
"I realised that my deal breaker list was full of only superficial things"
Seinfeld Syndrome :-
A 21st century affliction
To be overly picky and petty giving a sense of superficiality.
It was joke linking to the masters of superficiality.
I suppose deal breakers have existed for a long time, Ever seen the Dolls House
Indeed - that was my whole "what is the deal.." quote - taken from anyone who has ever mocked the Seinfeld school of obsevational stand-up.
My bad, I should of seen that
Your way smarter than me
You know Seinfeld's gone out of style when people don't get "what is the deal" references anymore.
Anywaah, as well as misogyny and bigotry, I've long held bad oral hygiene as a deal-breaker. I'm with Sam from The West Wing: "Look after your teeth, and they'll look after you".
And now I'm off to bwief the pwesident.
Please, Amanda, may I leave an epic list of "deal-breakers"? I'll try and leave some room for the sickening, almost degenerative, void in my heart to be filled by somebody that was not, perhaps, outraged when David Attenborough pipped Morrissey to the BBC's "Living Icon" poll; somebody who, for reasons one can only speculate, consider Jeremy Clarkson to be worthy of health care; maybe, even, and I think at this point you may have to kill me: somebody who tries desperately-hard to impress strangers at gatherings with Agonisingly Poor-Quality renditions of Oasis records on an acoustic worth less than their shirt. (Or somebody that: somebody impressed by those twonks and/or listens to Oasis without wanting to lodge a pick-axe into the base of their spine.)
(I realise that this post could easily have been applicable to your entry on anger issues.)
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