Getting to know you

In the "King and I", Anna the schoolteacher started prancing around in her goofy dress singing in typical British fashion how "bright and breezy" she was after "getting to know you". Now, the lyrics of that song can only be applied when you are indeed a colonialist bitch suffering from the loss of your military serving husband and are now in some exotic kingdom in the mystical east teaching english to royalty. And it will also help that the people feeding in the glory of your little song are children who do not understand English. Either that or she is a whore who had played "panty panty" with a stranger.

When has the process of getting to know someone been so preppy? Isn't it a clumsy and embarassing exercise as you slowly begin to uncover the dirt and peeves of someone? And wouldn't that exercise somehow make you wish that you never started on your ambitious self-serving campaign? After all, whats the point in knowing someone unless you feel that the person would be of some use to you? Now, now, no point riling over my arrogance. I'm merely venting out what all of you really think. If a person serves no purpose to you, adds no value to your current lifestly or at worst, is hindering you from future successes, then why get to know the person at all? It's like inviting trouble isn't it? Now, all of you can go be polite boys and girls and say things like,"It's accepting people's differences that matters" or that "Diversity is important". Sure, and why may i ask have you not returned that person's phone call or gone out with him/her for the past year?

You start out with this "image" of what the person must be. Usually it is on first impressions, sometimes its through word of mouth. So a girlfriend who could not contain her excitement could call you while you are overseas to gush about a 6 foot tall gentleman who could really shake his thang in some hip hop club back home and proclaim it to be LOVE, you would automatically have a mental "image" of what he might look like, sound like and taste like... the latter to be discovered on a later note..

And you could be so bowled over by the distinctive uppity-stuck-up "proper England so powderful" accent of one guy that you'll start planning as to how you can nab him and make him father your children because your "image" of him is one that brinks on "intellectual genius" or "incredibly rich".

However, when you start humming the first verse of "Getting to know you" in that thick disillusioned skull of yours, you discover that he likes digging his ear and tasting it after or that he has a skin disease on his nether regions or that he really is balding and so has to wear a wig. So much for "bright and breezy" huh?

Advice should be dispensed carefully, which is why you should not heed mine. But honestly, if you are intent on playing the "Getting to know you" game, its less painful if you don't go in with your ears and eyes wide open. You never know what you might accidentally see or hear.