Yesterday, I found myself on an elevator with about 6 guys and no other women. Sorry, not guys, I think they prefer to be called “bros” because that’s how they kept referring to each other. The next 45 seconds were the most difficult of my life, because I had to listen to their conversation without laughing hysterically.
Bro 1: What are you doing tonight bro? Hitting up the bars?
Bro 2: Nah bro, I’m going for a run.
Bro 1: Yeah. I feel ya. I went for a run last night, really pushed my limits.
Bro 3: Wait. You bros aren’t going to Third Base to get your drink on?
Bro 1: No, why are people hitting up Third Base?
Bro 2: Yeah, I heard about that but I wasn’t sure who was going. Anyone good?
Bro 3: Just a few bros from the office, but it should be a good time. They have hot waitresses.
Bro 4, 5,6: Bro. We’re all going. It’s like, a whole thing.
Bro: 2: Suck. I’m going for a run tonight.
Bro 3: How long you going for bro?
Bro 2: I’m thinkin a fiver bro. I just need to run, you know?
Then, they all got off the elevator and as soon as the elevator door closed, I started laughing and I didn’t stop until I got into my car. After a long day at work, I need that laugh. Thank you “bros” on the elevator. Thank you.
Been a way for a while, Bro, but I’m glad I checked in. Hilarious. Hit ya’ up later, Homey.
Rev. Joe
I saw a t-shirt that said “bro ain’t got no ho but no bro needs a ho’” and on the back, “Bro’s on top of Bro’s…” it was a gangsta gay pride shirt. Brilliant!!
This is so great (scary great, but great). Peppermeister does this thing to make fun of guys like this where he puts ‘bro’ into other words randomly when he’s talking to his male friends. (I just asked him for an example and he said, “Teddy Bro-sevelt.”)
Thank you, “sis,” for always amusing me.
I thought I should let you know that I nominated you for the Versatile Blogger Award (another to add to your collection, if you haven’t already). Some of my blog heroes are not into reciprocation, and that’s cool if you wind up not doing it. But I at least thought I should confirm the fact that you rock my socks.
http://wtpdiaries.wordpress.com/2012/08/27/so-about-this-versatile-blogger-thing/
Thank you so much! You’re the sweetest!
Your blogs are excellent examples of “slices of life.” I always enjoy their content and their humor! Smiles!
Thank you very much! That means a lot to me!
I’ve heard conversation like that. Then there were times when they would call each other ‘cuz’…. short for cousin
Haha! My cousins call each other that but I’ve never said it once myself.
Just nominated you for the Liebster Blog Award
http://smilescavenger.wordpress.com/2012/09/02/liebster-award/
Thank you so much!!
The bros are everywhere, absolutely everywhere – I think something should be invented to immunize yourself from the situation you’re in when surrounded by such bros. Some sort of bro spray. because lets face it, each time its a cause for laughter – and unfortunately mine is less controllable than yours.
Love the post!
Thanks! And hey, at least the “bros” keep us laughing.
And now the you have shared the joy just keeps multiplying.
Those “bros” sure have made a lot of people happy!
LOL loved it!
Love it!
Thank you!
I won’t even ask, were they all dressed in suits and under 30?
You got it.
Am I the only person who read their dialogue in the tone of a surfer?
I think that probably makes it funnier…
So much of what you capture on your blog shows how much humor everything has in it! Good sharing the funny lines!
Thank you so much! I appreciate that!
Hahahah!! I had a long day at work and needed that, as well.
Thanks so much for sharing. xD Oh my word…
Yay! I’m glad this brightened your day a little bit!
Good Stuff
Thanks!
I feel your pain. I had the “pleasure” of sitting in front of two bros on the train the other day. EVERY SINGLE COMMENT had ‘bro’ in it. They were talking about how one bro needed to grow up and take on some more responsibility, bro, because other bros just won’t respect a bro who doesn’t pull his own weight. You know, bro?
Hahaha! I wish I had heard that conversation! Although, I don’t think I would have been able to contain my laughter….
I think they were trying to impress you. And it worked…only not how they hoped.
Hey- props to those guys, they are now immortalized on this blog, good for them.
“This is the burden we bear, brother. We have a gig that inevitably would cause any girl living to think that we are cool upon cool. Yet we must Clark Kent our way through the day never to use it to our advantage. Thank God we’re pretty.” -Forest, BTVS.
Hahaha! I had forgotten about that episode!
There’s no “like” button. Hilarious!
Thanks! I’m glad you “liked” it, even if you couldn’t “like” it.
Wow, I love it. This is the stuff I’m looking for in my curlbros, etc blog. If they were at the gym, I would definitely exploited that conversation. This is a different bred of male.
Thanks! I figured it made me laugh and I might as well get a blog out of it.
I’m enjoying a laugh this morning thanks to the “bros”, too (and you, of course1). I love that I am feeling old at the thought of “hitting up” just about anything this evening, other than the PTO meeting. Pfftt!
Glad it made you laugh!
That is FUNNY! Thanks for sharing.
I’m convinced my conversations with my coworkers (we’re girls) must give people a chuckle. We’re either random, blunt, or just wacky.
I’m sure I’ve given many an eavesdropper and stander-by quite a laugh with the stuff I talk about too.
I just love the elevator encounters! I work 11 flights up.
I have a really awesome coworker who happens to own a trench coat. These 2 “bros” waiting for the elevator had seen him and were making fun of him right in front of me (unaware that I work with and am friends with him).
Tool 1: Did you see Neo from the Matrix, dude?
Tool 2: Yeah, man. What’s up with the trench coat?
Me: Oh, you mean [name].
Tool 1: You know that guy?
Me: Yes, I do. He’s actually a really cool guy. And we don’t have a dress code, so it’s nice working with people who aren’t all dressed exactly the same. You know, like empty suits? [pointedly staring at their clothes]
Tool 1: Well, what do you guys do over there anyway?
Me: Cybersecurity.
Tool 1: Oh.
[elevator arrives - they go down ONE floor]
Me: Wow. You guys really took the elevator to go down one floor? [raise eyebrow; doors close]
Bazinga! You totally got those guys!
Hilarious! At least you had entertainment. I hate getting into a crowded elevator and listening to the embarrassed silence all the way down.
Good point- I was pretty entertained, which isn’t a bad way to spend a long-ish elevator ride.
hee hee what ya doin tonight bra?
I’m totally going for a swim bro.
What’s sad is that I actually understood what they were saying… What does that say about me? LOL
I’m not going to lie, I followed along pretty well myself.
Ugh… (deep and resigned sigh) Coming from a guy who works in a male-dominated, downtown type of office building, let me tell you how exhausting it is to have to participate in these conversations…
It was pretty tiring just trying to listen to it.
This cracked me up! Yesterday, I saw a bro wearing a t-shirt that said, “Don’t bro me if you don’t know me,” and I haven’t been able to get that d@mn phrase out of my head!
THAT. IS. AMAZING. And definitely something I will be saying for a laugh pretty frequently.