I think I've discovered why I'm a mis-fit

I've been wracking my brains all week for a time when I've done something to fit in, and I can't think of one.

Not one.

From being an un-cool punk at school, not going to uni, not getting a proper job, marrying and having a kid young with no career plan and yet keeping a middle-class outlook. The only teenage-looking couple at Queen Charlotte's Hospital - all the other couples were in their 30s. Both Londoners we moved to Yorkshire in our mid-20s. Refused to let our daughter have a telly in her room or internet access, both went to uni as mature students before it was popular, getting factory jobs without becoming working class, getting a school-leaver's job when I was 35, getting a job in a finance department with a degree in Art & Design...I could go on.

The only place I really fitted in was when I was travelling round as young man, on my own. I was just like the other solo travellers, in that we were all mis-fits if you know what I mean.

Even here on b3ta - I can't photoshop, my top QOTW posts are amongst the longest ever and yet I NEVER apologise for length. I visit OT but don't do HSH, and I don't bitch about it either. And I don't do bashes.

My wife says I'm a chameleon, and I think she's right in a way. I don't fit in, I just melt into the background. I can get on with most people but don't really like most of them. I have nothing in common with most people, but even as a hermit I stick out - I'm married...to another hermit.

I don't mind though, it's what I choose and it suits me.
(Che Grimsdale Best before:, Wed 21 Jan 2009, 9:40, 5 replies)

I hope you're coming to the bash in York in a fortnight...

( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Wed 21 Jan 2009, 10:08, closed)

but....!
but...but...but...Che! you're our Glorious Leader! We can't have the revolution without you to lead us!
(EffinDoubt is breaking glass on, Wed 21 Jan 2009, 13:39, closed)

Well,
*click*.
(Not him., Wed 21 Jan 2009, 18:06, closed)

Hooray for Hermits ...
There's nothing quite like getting together every 10 years and talking about caves.
(Que?, Thu 22 Jan 2009, 5:49, closed)

I think my favourite bit out of a film ever...
...is the bit in Life of Brian, when Brian is at his Mum's house talking to the masses gathered outside.

Brian: Look, you've got it all wrong! You don't NEED to follow ME, You don't NEED to follow ANYBODY! You've got to think for your selves! You're ALL individuals!
The Crowd: Yes! We're all individuals!
Brian: You're all different!
The Crowd: Yes, we ARE all different!
Man in crowd: I'm not...

I think I'm the brother of that Man in crowd, the brother that didn't go along.
(Che Grimsdale Best before:, Thu 22 Jan 2009, 10:19, closed)