Last night, I watched Chantal's Chinese chow session back-to-back with "The Invisible Man" (the latter now available on a nefarious streaming site near you!). Both left me bewildered at the amount of lazy plot holes that weren't even attempted to be patched up or justified, but because this is Chantal's thread, I have to focus on her howlingly implausible and ludicrous story of that married man:
1.) Was she working the night shift, as I think she said? If so, how was she ordering Chicken katsu from that nearby Japanese restaurant in the wee hours?
2.) The job was "really easy," according to our beast. Since she considers eating in front of her phone a job, how easy was this gig? And why would she, of all people, be asked to train the new guy, and how much time, exactly, could possibly be spent training him to pick up a phone? (Bonus plausability point, however, for Chantal giving us a cunty aside about how she hates training people because there's nothing in it for her. This, I absolutely believe)
3.) He was a new hire at a company where his job was to answer phones during the night shift--in other words, a winner at life. Yet he happened to have a wife, and a house with "a really big driveway"?
4.) During this training session--a length of time she never specified--he kept talking to her about sex instead of answering his doggone phone. And Chantal was "young and naive" at the time, and never thought that all of this was inappropriate. How young? How naive? When did she become the highly-sexualized, intelligent, jaded, assertive woman of the world that she is today?
5.) Green and wide-eyed, she accepted this guy's offer to come over for "a beer." They come into his house (the one with that really big driveway, remember) and he says, "My wife is sleeping, but don't worry, she's a really deep sleeper." So why is it that they had to go and sit in his car? Which is it, Chantal?
6.) He farted. And--because the sound of my eyes rolling made me partially deaf--I wasn't sure if she said that he laughed, "Just kidding" afterwards. What was he kidding about? And why would she be appalled by this fart? In her world, that's foreplay.
7.) He happened to get fired from his job "the next day" because he couldn't get the hang of answering phones. Then wouldn't that technically be her fault, since she was supposed to train him? And then she gave another reason, which is that he couldn't really gel with the social atmosphere of the place. How social could the environment have been, if a misanthropic ogress ordering katsu during a night shift could still keep her job?
...I haven't even started on "The Invisible Man." I'm exhausted. Any insight into these points would be greatly appreciated.
