The Walkabout

As I've proven time and time again, I have great difficulty in disengaging from various unpleasant situations. It doesn't matter if it's with someone that I know well or an acquaintance that I've just made, there will always come a time that I need to get out of a conversation for my own sanity, and simply find myself unable for a myriad of reasons. I think that, what makes this phenomenon even worse, is when you can see the awkwardness coming at you in the form of someone that you dislike, and you know that you're going to have to get away as quickly as possible, but still manage to let yourself get caught in your enemy's sights.

Make-Out Fake-Out

There's a certain level of respect that I feel every person living on this earth is due. There are occasions where I feel that certain people really need to earn my respect, but upon first meeting someone I try to give them the benefit of the doubt and treat them in a wholly pleasant manner. Then there are people who treat you with such a total disregard for your own feelings that I worry they might have been raised in a barn (apologies to all barn-dwellers: I have never met a rude lamb).