The Comfy Corner

In real life, escaping an awkward conversation is relatively easy. For our purposes let's say you are talking to awkward Jackie. Everyone knows an awkward Jackie. You can simply make an excuse that you are in a hurry to get somewhere important and Jackie always understands. Even online it is easy -- "Sorry Jackie, gotta go cook dinner!" -- "Alrighty Jackie, better finish this paper! We should totes hang out, though. I missssss you!" There are, of course, people who insist on following you around refusing to let the conversation go. This is conversation parasite Jackie, feeding off of your kindness and willingness to give her the time of day to listen to her crazzzzzy story about the Starbucks guy.

Parties, however, are a different story. It is quite easy to get trapped into an uninteresting conversation at a party and it is much harder to escape it. What could you possibly say? "Oh I'm sorry Jackie, I have to go chat with this other group of people that seems to be having a better time than us." It seems like at parties the group across the room is always having a better, crazier time than you. If you do somehow manage to escape awkward Jackie by saying something like "Oh, I have to run use the bathroom" Jackie is clearly going to see that you just wanted to get away because you don't come back! Or you are caught on the other side of the room chatting with the crazy partiers, taking crazy pictures (without Jackie). You are trapped in this situation where you couldn't possibly have something "important" to do ("Oh I have this important beer pong meeting that I can't miss.") because you are at a party. The only solution to this problem is to get really drunk so you can be like "Wow, when I get drunk I get really A.D.D."

Just food for thought as you lounge in your comfy corners.