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March 4, 2006
I'm not really that stoopid
An example of how I betray me smarts
The Scene: Looking at a sun setting over the water down south of Sri Lanka, all palm trees, pulsing humidity and gin and tonic…
Him “It must be great living in Perth, you get to see a sun set over the water every day”
Me “I guess so. (pause) Why? Where does it set in Sydney?”
Him “Umm, over the land. It rises over the water.”
Me, vaguely “Oh. Yeah, I have heard something about that…”
Now, I’m not actually that stupid. Not even close. But sometimes I get vague. I get foggy in the head. I temporarily forget the basics of life. I drink gin, lots of it (though usually that makes me real smart… and charming and interesting and hilarious). But this person, the ‘Him’, has had a short conversation with a random girl on a foreign beach and will probably walk away thinking, ‘how stoopid is that?’ And that’s my own fault.
This weeks resolution: Pay attention, listen up, remember the basics and give up the gin
Posted by catherine at March 4, 2006 10:35 AM