How random can a person ACTUALLY be?
Randomness.
Usually a pretty common factor in both my group's humor and in it's actions. We go to random places, we make random references, and we make small talk with random stangers at Strbucks. But how random we are depends entierly on how random the world chooses to allow us to be...
For one example, we went to starbucks on northlake for coffee one night because our friend was having a birthday party and she felt like doing something different.(We have created a Graceland for ourselves at the starbucks on PGA, so this was a pretty wild transition for us.) The basic local core members of our group were there, and we were being the usual loud, obnoxious post-adolescent group we normally are. Then for some reason we a conversation with this (Rather Beautiful) woman sitting next to us. Or random behavior and witty humor (and not-so-witty "Travis, do the T-Rex!") won this total strangers attention and telephone number. She seems fairly adament about going to see Rocky down in Ft laud this weekend.
But how random were we? Were we simply at the right place at the right time? Or was our antics really what attracted this stranger to us?
Another case is this new female that recently aquainted at the mall. For those of you who don't know me, I work in the cesspit called the gardens mall, at the evil torture chamber commonly refered to as GapKids.) She worked at one of the local shops. She seemed interesting, and I was on a mission to find an actual Darth Vader action figure, not a morphing anakin or light-up red lightsaber. Just the doll. And I had been thwarted at every turn. So I (Randomly) went up to this girl and demanded to know whythey had hidden all of the Darth Vaders, and how much they were holding them for ransom. She insisted that there were some, and I was forced to prove otherwise.
Now her demeanor and attitude were incredibly interesting to me. Very inteligent, yet reserved and rather stand offish. She seemed acheingly familiar. So of course i asked if I had accosted her before. She insisted that we had never met, and I attempted to make ammends for my rudeness with cookies. She declined.
I had finnaly placed what was so familiar about her to me. She acted like my friend christine. So I made an assumption; Stine acts this way, and Stine's sexual preference is ussualy towards females. Therefore, this girl(giving off many other signs that I ussually pick up from my lesbian friends) must be gay!
Turns out I was pretty wrong.
She came to see me in my store a few days later, to tell me that Vader had been spotted in lawn chair version at KB, and continued to visit my work every couple of weeks.
Yesterday, I invited her to come out with me and Stine to go to a pub called the Dirty Dwarf for a brew. She accepted my number and called me later on theat evening. We met as the "Usual" starbucks and went down to lake worth to the pub. On the way ther we made some interesting discoveries.
She's not gay, and she was not nearly as random a chance encounter as I thought. She's freinds with one of my best friends exes, and knows not only BLuE, but Liz as well! Take that one Randomness!
But what she IS is a really cool person. I hope she want's to come out again.
So what I want to know is, how many more people do we NOT know somehow? Will we meet more "Random strangers" or more "Acquaintences" in our lifetimes?
Interesting concept, hmm?
Tired and bemused
Travis The Tonnberry King
Usually a pretty common factor in both my group's humor and in it's actions. We go to random places, we make random references, and we make small talk with random stangers at Strbucks. But how random we are depends entierly on how random the world chooses to allow us to be...
For one example, we went to starbucks on northlake for coffee one night because our friend was having a birthday party and she felt like doing something different.(We have created a Graceland for ourselves at the starbucks on PGA, so this was a pretty wild transition for us.) The basic local core members of our group were there, and we were being the usual loud, obnoxious post-adolescent group we normally are. Then for some reason we a conversation with this (Rather Beautiful) woman sitting next to us. Or random behavior and witty humor (and not-so-witty "Travis, do the T-Rex!") won this total strangers attention and telephone number. She seems fairly adament about going to see Rocky down in Ft laud this weekend.
But how random were we? Were we simply at the right place at the right time? Or was our antics really what attracted this stranger to us?
Another case is this new female that recently aquainted at the mall. For those of you who don't know me, I work in the cesspit called the gardens mall, at the evil torture chamber commonly refered to as GapKids.) She worked at one of the local shops. She seemed interesting, and I was on a mission to find an actual Darth Vader action figure, not a morphing anakin or light-up red lightsaber. Just the doll. And I had been thwarted at every turn. So I (Randomly) went up to this girl and demanded to know whythey had hidden all of the Darth Vaders, and how much they were holding them for ransom. She insisted that there were some, and I was forced to prove otherwise.
Now her demeanor and attitude were incredibly interesting to me. Very inteligent, yet reserved and rather stand offish. She seemed acheingly familiar. So of course i asked if I had accosted her before. She insisted that we had never met, and I attempted to make ammends for my rudeness with cookies. She declined.
I had finnaly placed what was so familiar about her to me. She acted like my friend christine. So I made an assumption; Stine acts this way, and Stine's sexual preference is ussualy towards females. Therefore, this girl(giving off many other signs that I ussually pick up from my lesbian friends) must be gay!
Turns out I was pretty wrong.
She came to see me in my store a few days later, to tell me that Vader had been spotted in lawn chair version at KB, and continued to visit my work every couple of weeks.
Yesterday, I invited her to come out with me and Stine to go to a pub called the Dirty Dwarf for a brew. She accepted my number and called me later on theat evening. We met as the "Usual" starbucks and went down to lake worth to the pub. On the way ther we made some interesting discoveries.
She's not gay, and she was not nearly as random a chance encounter as I thought. She's freinds with one of my best friends exes, and knows not only BLuE, but Liz as well! Take that one Randomness!
But what she IS is a really cool person. I hope she want's to come out again.
So what I want to know is, how many more people do we NOT know somehow? Will we meet more "Random strangers" or more "Acquaintences" in our lifetimes?
Interesting concept, hmm?
Tired and bemused
Travis The Tonnberry King