Just keep your mouth shut eHawk

You know how when you start a new job, you need to slowly allow your personality to break through, just so people don't feel like, Who the hell are you?  You're new here, so shut up!  Well, maybe that's just me.  I know I can be "intense" for people.  They need to warm up to me before I unleash the fierceness that is my being. :)

So it was with great restraint that I kept my mouth shut after overhearing the following two comments.  Under ordinary circumstances I would have been ALL OVER these people, and probably would have caused them to not like me (I know, unbelievable, huh?). 

1.  Listening to an M.I.A. song, anonymous worker #1 says:  "I love M.I.A.  She's totally badass.  Her rapping is like, totally legit, she's actually had people bomb her town and stuff.  She's like from Columbia or something."

Me:  Ohmygod, just keep folding the shirts that you're working on.  You're not even in the conversation, it would be weird enough that you comment, even worse when you tell her that "No, M.I.A. is totally not from Columbia, she's from Sri Lanka.  Aaaactually, she was born in the U.K., moved back to Sri Lanka with her family so her father could work as an activist for the Tamil military, moved around a bunch and then finally went back to London much later.  And Sri Lanka is on the other side of the world from Columbia, just so you know."

2.  Listening to a cover of David Bowie's Under Pressure, anonymous worker #2 says: "Dude, it's like totally weird that someone sampled that old Vanilla Ice song and put it in this track."

Me:  I cannot BELIEVE that she just said that!  How have you never hear the David Bowie tune before?!  It's so ridiculous, that I don't even WANT to correct you.  I'm just gonna let you be in your own little ignorant world...