Maybe I'm just weird...

I live in DC one of the fakest cities in the world.  I don't like it, but you have to do what you have to do to get where you want to be in life.  You know the small investment for the big return???

I often go out to Happy Hour with co-workers and I just observe people.  I listen to the conversations about nothing and wonder to myself about people.  I engage in conversations and sometimes I feel insulted by the lack of life experience from a lot of my co-workers.  Like most folks are late 20s to in their 30s, and most haven't experienced being a real adult.  You know like living on your own, owning a home or a car, cooking multiple times a week, you know the things that "normal" people do.

I was out last night and I had an interaction with someone as I was preparing to leave Happy Hour early because I needed to go to the store to pick up some things.  Now anytime you leave Happy Hour early people respond like you are killing babies.  Then you have to get hostile and explain that you are an adult and you do what you want to do, when you want to.  I don't get that at all.  I mean for over 15 years, I have been going and doing how I please and because you want to enjoy cheap drinks and lame conversation, I'm supposed to stay?

That's the difference between people who have lives and one-dimensional people.  I don't force anything...If I'm bored, I will get up and leave.  If someone is ditsy and they keep talking around me, I leave.  If someone I don't like is there, I leave.  You see the theme.  Maybe I'm just weird....nah...most folks just suck.

Fin