Know Your Limitations!

I consider myself to be a pretty self-aware person and firmly believe that most adults should be.  However, my mind is always boggled when I come across people who are not—and I come across them a lot!  I believe that if you are ugly, you should have an inkling that you are not hot and you should not have the confidence to try to holla at someone that is clearly out of your league.  Case and point…I went out to dinner last night with a friend.  While at dinner, this scruffy, sisqo-lookin ass nigga comes to our table and starts trying to holla, HARD.  He is actually one of the waiters, but not our waiter—don’t you have tables to tend to?  I promise you he looked just like a dirty version of Sisqo (and Sisqo already looks dirty, so you know this negro was EXTRA homely)!  Anyway, he comes to the table multiple times throughout the evening and with each glass of wine it becomes sadder and sadder—at one point I was laughing hysterically in his face…I just couldn’t help it.  He tells us he is a singer and he decides to serenade us…WOW.  This dirty little monkey is singing loudly at my table and in the back of my mind I’m like “I can’t believe he actually thinks this is ok” but because I’m a little tipsy, all I can do is laugh in his face.  He also mentions that his boy (one of the line cooks–complete with corn rows and a Kango) wants to meet my friend.  He is a singer too, and aspires to open his own restaurant!  Good luck with that one, homie.  I mean what they hell is wrong with us?  Why are we trippin?  They are clearly good catches! LOL  Let  me run down the reasons why he should not have approached me:

1.  I’m hot and you’re not

2. I’m clean and you’re dirty

3.  I’m straight and you’re gay

4.  I’m educated and you have a GED (Ok, so I’m assuming…but I bet you I’m right)

5.  I’m professional and you are hood

So these are only a few of the reasons why it was not OK for him to holla at me. I truly believe that he should have been able to decipher these differences just by looking at me, but for some reason he couldn’t and I just dont get that.  He could have saved himself from much embarrassment, but chose to play himself.  I guess what confuses me about these non-aware folks is that the embarrassment could be so avoidable if they would just know their limitations.  Now, if I had on BabyPhat, golds in my mouth, and finger waves then he shoulda been all ON me…that would be more his speed.  But, the fact that he had the confidence to approach ME, lets me know that he is not self-aware and thus does not know his limitations.  Sad.