Sunday, December 21, 2008

blue collar friends in sweden

let me quote wot anders said
"when i'm worrying about if i can get a 5 for my exam tomorrow, they are worrying about things like... oh no... in his case, he's NOT worrying about, getting fired by his boss..."
his truck driver friend is happy that he got 80% compensation for the month and is not worrying about it.

his friends from skövde, his hometown ~100km away from gothenburg, decided to visit him on the weekend before his exam, which was on monday. 5 of them, all half drunk when they arrived, came with more beers and noisy musics.

"i've been here in gothenburg for 4.5yrs and out of all these time, u guys' decided to visit me before my final exams?!!" the visit was a stayover. he decided to retreat to the kitchen to continue solving his mechanics of material tutorial questions and only joined for a few hrs. as he said, he was aiming for grade 5 ^^

among them, there's a painter who's actually paid handsomely. recently spent 1500kr in a strip club and now only has 1000kr left for xmas presents and stuffs (here, evone get stressed b4 xmas bcoz of the presents)... and he'd lend 1500kr of those from someone else, so his account balance is actually -500kr. wot kind of reasons shall he give his grandma when he goes home empty handed for xmas...

and a guy who'd like to drink and make trouble. and he's out of job also, so it's more likely now for him to drink and make more trouble...

another friend was visited by her body builder friends. again stayover. again exam week... they were basically lying absolutely naked in the kitchen, with those body builder oil all over their body. and so she had to encounter some not so inviting sights evtime she goes into the kitchen for a drink or some refreshments...
but at least they are not making noise...

and there is one of my own who's the ronaldo type. bcoz he's got nothing before, now that he's got money, he wants evthing. oh yes, blue collars here earn 3x my salary before i quit. good thing is he's not as rich as ronaldo and there's still control... car, smokes, girls and a lot of other materialism indulgance... but at least marijuana is now gone from his life...

another one who's a chauffer. listening to him talk to whoever that is always on the other end of the phone makes one wish to be in another place on earth. tht angry tone and a topic that is always surrounding Money. "NO I TOLD U I DONT HAVE ANY MONEY!"

ofcoz there are nice ones too.

a ship welder lady. de job title itself is cool enough huh? and she's bloody brilliant i tell u! she's from romania and when i met her, she'd mastered basic swedish in 2 short months! and although her days always start at 5am, her eyes still beams at 8 in the evening :) and that absolutely positive attitude towards evthing is juz joyful ^^

we were joking about francesco totti and his working class accent and the whole list of stupid things he said XD but yes ofcoz he's one of the best footballer no doubt. and a pretty one XD

working class, wasnt i one before? ^^
oh yes, i was a waitress, and i was a paper distributor...

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lcf said...

cool stories, feeling like being welcomed to the real world.

x said...

hehe... juz another way of living. they also thought our stories are cool ^^