will aliens understand us?!

i think about the odd little eccentricities of humanity all the time. i usually try to think about it from the perspective of the creatures that we see as the farthest from ourselves that we believe have some sort of "greater" understanding of reality.

like, how will aliens see us? will they just scratch their heads at our eating habits and prejudices? our racism? our lack of respect for our elders, and our lack of understanding for our young?

how do cats and dogs think about our living situation. we can just take them and own them. feed them the same food every day and wonder why their breath stinks. we let them shit in boxes of sand, or on the lawn, but we shit in a magic bowl filled with water. we eat out of a big cold white thing that opens up. we leave the house for long periods of time and come back on a pretty regular schedule. we wear coverings on our bodies.

i mean, what the fuck?

are we even going to be able to understand aliens? like, say one dude's just hanging out in his house some day and he realizes the temperature drops a good 10 degrees, and then all of the sudden he starts trippin' out, and he gets a body-jolting shock.

and he never realizes what happened.

an alien fuckin' floated into his living room and tried to talk to him in alien-ese, and us humans just can't handle their mode of communication.

argh. shit like this drives me batty.