May 27, 2009

  • When people meet (and are introduced to one another by common friends),
    one of three things happen...

    Scenario #1: Person A is having a great day and is feeling friendly. Person B is having the same sort of day. Due to this background, both people will probably meet and no drama will occur. Perhaps they'll become great friends, perhaps they won't. Neither one goes home with a chip on his/her shoulder about what the other one said or did throughout the night. Since both have come to the situation with good attitudes, they don't end up with anything horribly mean to say about the other person.

    Scenario #2: One of these said Persons is having a rather crappy day. Maybe Person A had a bad day at work and ends up taking it out on Person B. Maybe Person B says one wrong thing that throws Person A over the edge and they freak out or immediately cut Person B out of the picture for the day's/night's events/conversations. These two will probably not become friends, and it's at a lesser percentage than the worst outcome of Senario #1.

    Scenario #3: Both Persons mentioned above have had horrible days/weeks/what-have-you. They meet, and typically, all hell breaks loose. Person A starts in with, "I've worked for 12 hours straight," and Person B feels immediately that what's being insinuated is that he/she works less or not as hard. It becomes a game of one-downing each other (or one-upping, depending). OR maybe they share their negative circumstances. A few drinks later, they've started to look at the glass half full and leave the bar with a new friendship under his/her belt.

    Now, I love the number three, but I realize there may be other scenarios out there. I think I've chopped 'em down to the three main ones... pretty sure I implemented #2 this last Saturday night when a dude I had already deemed unworthy asked me a question that I took the way I wanted to take it (badly). Yea. Sometimes, I'm just plain, straight-up judgmental.