{"id":241,"date":"2009-04-10T08:54:56","date_gmt":"2009-04-10T15:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/?p=241"},"modified":"2025-05-23T17:33:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T22:33:52","slug":"friday-april-10th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/friday-april-10th\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday, April 10th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Poor Lucky Me,<\/p>\n<p>I moved into my current apartment building about two years ago.\u00a0 I see my neighbor every few days; he&#8217;s a nice guy in his 40&#8217;s.\u00a0 Sometimes we&#8217;ll watch a baseball game together and drink beers, I like his company.\u00a0 It&#8217;s weird though, because he used to be really bald and lately I&#8217;ve noticed he&#8217;s less and less bald.\u00a0 He almost has a full head of hair.<\/p>\n<p>Is he getting hair plugs?\u00a0 Are we friends enough for me to ask about it?\u00a0 How does he explain his new hair to his family and co-workers?\u00a0 Maybe I&#8217;m being a judgmental asshole, and no one else cares?\u00a0 I don&#8217;t exactly care, I&#8217;m just very very very very very very very curious.<\/p>\n<p>Love,<\/p>\n<p>Very Curious<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dear Very Curious,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I&#8217;m sure some people would disagree, but I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s anything wrong with asking about some one&#8217;s anti-aging methods.\u00a0 As long as you are polite and will to be complimentary, you should feel free to satisfy your curiosity. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>At my last job the CEO&#8217;s secretary went on vacation and came back with enormous boobs.\u00a0 I was impressed by their girth and their exposure.\u00a0 The secretary and I had a nice rapport, so I went up to her and said how nice her new jugs were and does it take some time for them to settle in place?\u00a0 She acted stunned and coughed and stuttered that she was just wearing a new shirt.\u00a0 So I got the drift and said &#8220;Here&#8217;s to tight shirts, eh?&#8221; and clinked her coffee mug with my coffee mug. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>When I got back to my desk I already had an email from H.R. asking for a meeting.\u00a0 Those bastards will get you in for a meeting for the littlest things and I wasn&#8217;t going to back down like I had to back down for putting Bailey&#8217;s in the coffee machine on Fridays.\u00a0 I won&#8217;t bore you with the details, but in the end what really helped my case was the revelation that the CEO had actually paid for the secretary&#8217;s new boobs while they were on a clandestine trip to Mexico.\u00a0 We all agreed to put the incident behind us and allow me to work from home.\u00a0 It was pretty awesome actually.\u00a0 But I never meant to insult or harass anyone, I was just trying to be friendly. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>You should say to your neighbor friend: &#8220;Your hair looks great, would you mind telling me about it?&#8221;\u00a0 If he doesn&#8217;t take the bait, you&#8217;ll have to let it go.\u00a0 Some people want attention but then are touchy when they get it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sincerely,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Poor Lucky Me<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Poor Lucky Me, I moved into my current apartment building about two years ago.\u00a0 I see my neighbor every few days; he&#8217;s a nice guy in his 40&#8217;s.\u00a0 Sometimes we&#8217;ll watch a baseball game together and drink beers, I like his company.\u00a0 It&#8217;s weird though, because he used to be really bald and lately &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/friday-april-10th\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Friday, April 10th&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3820,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions\/3820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}