I really love being alone but yesterday was my birthday. All I wanted to do was grab a few beers, have a pizza and maybe meet some interesting people. I did all the three things. I went to an old brewery where they make really good beer and moderately good pizza. It is almost always packed every evening so finding a place to sit is a struggle.

The few available seats were right next to three girls near the bar. I sat, got my beer and started catching up on my mail. These girls really pissed me off. It not much as a gender thing. I genuinely abhor people ( men, women and other 2 million genders in between) who do either of the following:

  • Talk loudly
  • Use a very obvious fake accent when outside
  • Brag about how much the can drink
  • take too many pictures
  • have Every conversation about some or other social media post
  • Last but not the least - talk about how expensive shit they have on them.

These girls did all those things. I would have loved nothing more than to move away from there to some other place but right next to me was an older guy reading a book. Whenever I see someone read a book my curiosity, to find out what they are reading, overrides my annoyance. This time too was no different. I glanced and saw he was reading a book on Abraham Lincoln. This one if you are curious.

I asked him about the book and we generally got talking about what we have read and if the book does justice to Lincoln. I asked him about his opinion on the book. We spoke at length about reading habits, business and my favourite culture & anthropology. It was a treat. I loved every minute of our conversation. Coming back to my rant.

Since neither of us was paying attention to these girls, the girls kept getting louder and louder. Finally, when they realised that there was no way I am going to stop talking to a very interesting man to fulfil their attention whoring one of the girls' taped me on my back and asked me for something. I have no idea what since I don't speak or understand fake British accented English thus I asked her what she wanted and I got gibberish, again. So I passed them a few straws lying in front me as all of them had a beer in hand and went back to my conversation. They were visibly annoyed. Five minutes later all three left the scene. Damn! If I had known that straws were a thot repellent I would have used them in all my previous relationships.

Thankfully I got to have a good birthday celebration exactly the way I wanted that is having a few nice cold beer, pizza and talking to an extremely knowledgeable guy about life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.

I am not trying to make a point here. There is no moral of a story but just a man having a nice time and getting annoyed by the social media crazy wahman.

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