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Old 05-11-2018, 06:53 AM
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You know, people wonder why some people avoid social situations and parties, it is because people and talking is effing' scary and so much can go horribly wrong.

I went to a barbecue party at the new job place I will be starting at soon and was initially actually talking to people pretty ok like one is supposed to, with just a few oddities that are fairly innocuous (such as someone presented their fist in at a random time and I just stared at it blankly for ages, turns out the wanted a fist-bump). But, of course, I am least adept at the talky parts of life.

Someone was talking about their sister and how her girlfriend is a horror and how they want to tell the sister to just dump said girlfriend and find someone new on grinder. What I meant to reply to that was a self-deprecating amusing line of me being so old (and old-fashioned) and clueless that I think apps like tinder and grindr are just for meaningless hookups and one-night stands, and that they would not be the idea place to find a perfect long-term serious partner.

Instead I just said "Ah, you see, that's the problem, the good people aren't on grindr!"

The awkward silence should have clued me in, but not until the conversation had moved past that (and I fact not really until I got home) did I realize they must have thought I was a raving homophobe. :facepalm:

So yeah, got that waiting for me at the new office now once I start.
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