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On my right at happy hour was Kurt who just got back from Thailand. He kept talking in low tones across the table to Joshua about hookers, so I tried to keep looking left. But on my left was Ella who had also been to Thailand, after college, and was convinced this made her the most interesting person ever.Oh, did you go to this Thai place? she would ask, apropos of nothing, shouting it down the table to be sure everyone knew that she knew about Thailand. It was so much cheaper than Mexico. Kurt just stared, leaned in to Joshua again.
When she’d gotten all the mileage she could out of Thailand she talked about being Jewish, which is apparently the most unique and interesting thing you can imagine, next to traveling in Thailand. Don’t out me, I telepathically told Rae across our Martini glasses. I don’t want anything in common with this woman.
After half an hour of talking about herself, she turned to me. Have you ever been anywhere interesting? she asked. Here and there I replied. And I turned away. Fine. I’m the bitch.
Finally I left in the middle, stood up abruptly and looped my scarf around my neck and said goodbye, which I guess was kind of rude. But after the conversation about how much I ought to like Superbad, about how it was so funny that even if I don’t like that kind of movie there is no way I wouldn’t like it, it seemed the least rude response I had in me.
I like people, I really do. I like strangers and difficult people, too. But some days I like best the people who write books that I can read alone at a coffeeshop table, or people who make movies that I can watch alone in an old theater. And I like best the people whom I already know and love, who don’t give a shit that I lived in the rainforest, and who know that I’d hate Superbad.
posted by tortaluga @ 8:32 PM
4 Comments:
Good golly, have I been there! Like, a lot. The worst is when they're people you can't offend (like your husband's colleagues).
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Did you happen to mention you were from the east coast? Cause that situation certainly justified some good old ECA (east coast angst) to me.
From one bitch to another...I wouldn't like you any other way.
Talley
YEAH ECA!
i was so desperate for antisocial sympathy after posting this, i went to see Into the Wild.
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