“Yea, yea… what do you want?”
“Well, my friend here and I were talking, and… ”
“Good for you, what does that have to do with me?”
“We just thought that… ”
“You just thought that you’d try and have a conversation with me for some reason I don’t care to know. Well, give it up old man, it’s not going to happen and if you need to know why, go and ask your naked friend’s naked boyfriend. Now if you’ll excuse me, I … ”
“No I will not excuse you.”
“What?”
“I’m not going to let you get away with being so rude and then just leaving after throwing all kinds of cynical judgements around and not letting anyone respond to them like you did with my friend’s partner the other day. Like it or not, you are part of this community and you can’t just go around behaving like that.”
“Or what? You gonna take away my birthday or something? You ain’t the boss of me. I live here and have the same rights as you. I committed no crime and I see no badge on you giving you the power to compel me to do ANYTHING, much less make nice, nice with any of the loonies in this so-called ‘community’ of yours.”
“You’re right, I have no authority here and you’re not doing anything illegal. I’m sorry if I offended you.”
“You didn’t offend me, you pissed me off. Just like all the others here in this sorry sandbox of morons.
Who are YOU supposed to be anyway? The local repository of all wisdom? Some kind of self-appointed elder? Or are you just an old busybody with nothing better to do than point out my social failings? Nice work grandpa, you got me. I’m an asshole.
Now take your naked friend and go pin a merit badge on that vintage polo shirt and leave me alone.”
“Ok, we’re going now, I promise. We just wanted to invite you to our party this Saturday afternoon in central park, that’s all. There will be free beer, BBQ and a live band. But I doubt you’d want to come, since all those morons you loath to interact with so much will be there… and then some.”
“Oh… a party eh?”
“Yes, you are most welcome to come. If you’re not too busy brooding or failing at any other random social interactions, that is.”
“Ha ha… good one. Ok well since you put it like that. I might just be available that day.”
“Great, see you there and thanks.”
“For what?”
“For the nice conversation.”
“HA! You’re all right old man.”
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Blessed…
m(___)m
