The down under blunder
Is it wrong to listen to other people's conversations when sitting at a bar? I say no.
I went to the outback for dinner tonight and being just me I sat at the bar. I had a tough time even getting a seat there. I ordered pretty quickly and started reading. It became clear to me that the couple who was sitting around the corner of the bar from me was on a first date or a blind or something. Clearly from the conversation they didn't know anything about each other. They were pretty young maybe 22 or 23 and they were talking about school. She was talking about a huge project she did and all the details she included when making this somehow extra large diorama art/history project. She was clearly proud of it and clearly proud of stuff she had learned in school. Smart girl. OK fine.
The blunder? "My favorite class? Well I'm thinking it was auto shop... body work mostly." Then he went on to detail that after high school he started working in a body shop and she was politely interested. (And yes by now I'm eating salad, not looking at them but listening intently because it was fucking funny.) He talked about how that was just "like a dollar over minimum wage" so he got out of that and went to school. "You know just went to school." She asked "what did you study?" Again politely interested. His response? "math" well I kinda like math and it was fun, but I only got a C. That's better than English though. I always had to go to summer school for English.
OK I'm all for honest, but dude... Seriously? Be excellent in her presence. Not detail the encyclopedia of stupid that you've lived. Seriously I'm sure the guy was good at something. He could have talked about... anything else... Not summer school. Not his minimum wage job. Not that math was fun, but he only got a C. So not laid.
I went to the outback for dinner tonight and being just me I sat at the bar. I had a tough time even getting a seat there. I ordered pretty quickly and started reading. It became clear to me that the couple who was sitting around the corner of the bar from me was on a first date or a blind or something. Clearly from the conversation they didn't know anything about each other. They were pretty young maybe 22 or 23 and they were talking about school. She was talking about a huge project she did and all the details she included when making this somehow extra large diorama art/history project. She was clearly proud of it and clearly proud of stuff she had learned in school. Smart girl. OK fine.
The blunder? "My favorite class? Well I'm thinking it was auto shop... body work mostly." Then he went on to detail that after high school he started working in a body shop and she was politely interested. (And yes by now I'm eating salad, not looking at them but listening intently because it was fucking funny.) He talked about how that was just "like a dollar over minimum wage" so he got out of that and went to school. "You know just went to school." She asked "what did you study?" Again politely interested. His response? "math" well I kinda like math and it was fun, but I only got a C. That's better than English though. I always had to go to summer school for English.
OK I'm all for honest, but dude... Seriously? Be excellent in her presence. Not detail the encyclopedia of stupid that you've lived. Seriously I'm sure the guy was good at something. He could have talked about... anything else... Not summer school. Not his minimum wage job. Not that math was fun, but he only got a C. So not laid.
posted by J.R. at 9:01 PM
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