Ok, so you know how when you sit at a table in a restaurant with a large group of people, the few people who sit in the middle of the table get the butt end of the conversations? The people on the left & right of you start forming their own little "cliques" for time being and if you try to enter their conversation, they look at you like, "Hey, get your own topics for discussion." So then you're stuck at the table sitting across from this other poor soul who gets left on the other side looking straight back at you. You don't know what to say, because you know who the person is, but you don't know the person well enough to carry on a meaningful conversation. So you may say to this person, "Hey how about this heat we're having?" Or, "Boy, I'm sure glad we don't have any elbow room because these fatsos are cramping me in." (You can say this because there is a high chance that everyone at the table will ignore you.)
The moral of this story is be the first one to sit down. That way you can ignore the schmuck who sits in the middle.
P.S. You never get the appetizers when you sit in the middle. Or the napkins.
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