i don't have any interest in knowing if we are real life friends, but ever since meeting you and your wife last november at the cosmo cat pub, there is ONE thing i've been wanting to know ...
you might remember that you got up to use the bathroom, leaving me and your wife - who i didn't know and had never met - alone at the table. now, i'm not trying to criticize here (if you had to go, you had to go), but generally, in situations where only TWO people know each other, i will wait until one of the people who doesn't know each other gets up to go to the bathroom, at which point i will go at the same time (leaving just ONE person at the table, thus saving them from the awkward pointless three minutes of "so, what do you do for a living?" conversation that everybody hates.)
but, you didn't do that, and so i was stuck trying to fill a couple of minutes of small talk with your wife until you returned. which would have been very easy to do, except ... we didn't know each other very well, and i hate hate hate asking questions when i don't care to hear the answer.
anyway, as soon as you left, i immediately began racking my brain for questions to ask your wife. i'm sure your wife was doing the same. but neither of us could come up with anything! three, then four, then five seconds of total silence!
how awkward!
and that's when it hit me. that's perfect! we can make small talk over how awkward it is when someone leaves two people who don't know each other alone at the table.
so i said, "wow, doesn't get much more awkward than this."
your wife agreed! soon, we were making real, actual small talk; not the crappy forced kind where we ask each other dumb questions! and then, you returned within two minutes, and everything was back on track.
i've been wanting to know: did she think that was weird?
also, are me and your wife real life friends?
