How to meet new people

[actionjack]

Me: What's that on your shirt?
Silence: (Breathes)
Me: My first guess would be that it's a lightsaber. But I don't think lightsabers have actual light bulbs attached to them.
Dan: That's what it is. It's a lightsaber with a light bulb.
Silence: (Deep breath)
Me: Oh! I get it!

Comments

[peggusus]

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[chubbs_malone]

Whats the context of this?

[actionjack]

One of my college friends had come up to spend a week in Chicago. I met up with her to see a show, only to find her surrounded by a half-dozen people I had never met. And so, during the times when her attention was elsewhere, I had to make new friends. Which was tricky, because they were all wonderful people but I didn't know much about them other than that they also knew Erica. And because I've reigned in my tendency to scare new people but don't really have any strong instincts with which to replace it.

That exchange, conducted with her boyfriend, was one of my less successful endeavors.