Went to watch Music and Lyrics. Liked it. Certainly a feel-good movie that makes for perfect viewing pleasure. Romantic comedies starring Hugh Grant or Drew Barrymore always bring smiles to my face, and Music and Lyrics was no different. I liked the fact that it had a nice story going but unfortunately the plot wasn’t taken a bit further enough. I mean the part about confronting her ex could have been developed a bit further towards the end at least. Nevertheless, given that it’s a comedy, perhaps it wasn’t meant to be too serious. And yes, had a few good laughs.

Anyway I have questions I can’t quite answer, or actually to better put it, I don’t quite know what to do about some situations. And they’re really trivial….but really get to me.

1) You’re sitting in the subway, on your way to work. A woman stands in front of you. You ignore her, cos she’s probably just another random commuter. And then she holds her tummy. She does this two or three times. And then you wonder why. Could she possibly be pregnant? She isn’t visibly pregnant, but she could be. Should you offer her your seat? What if she isn’t pregnant? Then you would be insinuating that she is FAT. Now that just wouldn’t do, right?

What would you do?

2) There a bunch of punks listening to some crappy music (ie. Akon or Eminem or whatever) SUPER LOUDLY. In fact, it’s not listening. They’re bascially BLASTING their crappy music for all and sundry to hear. And mind you, all and sundry, including tired office workers like yours truly, do NOT want to hear. Come on, it isn’t Rammstein or Nirvana or even Red Hot Chilli Peppers. It’s Akon - Singing "I want to love you, love you, love you" doesn’t exactly require 300 million decibels does it? You feel like going up to these stupid punks and knocking some sense into them. But you can’t muster up the guts cos they look like punks with bad hairdos and you’re afraid of getting beaten up for no rhyme or reason (pun intended).

What would you do?

3) You head to your workplace, clearly pissed off with the world. And then you see this person who from time to time annoys the hell out of you (and your fellow colleagues) for a very trivial thing. She BURPS….VERY loudly. Make that super duper loudly. I’m not exagerating. She burps sooo loudly you feel like puking everytime she does it. And the burping thing happens several times a day. Only God knows what the hell she eats to make her burp like that. Now the problem is that, neither you nor your colleagues actually know what to do about it cos you cannot afford to strain the relationship you have with this client. You have to be on their good side, for obvious reasons. Do you continue to tolerate it and overwork your gag reflexes?

What would you do?