Paranoid Pair

In life, you come across a lot of people that you never want to see repeatedly. Naturally, these are the people that you run into most, usually at the most inopportune moments. These are also the people that are so unaware of their own horror that they're unable to just let you walk away, and trap you into insanely long, drawn-out conversations that you spend a lot of energy trying to escape from. They probably think that those conversations are really deep and leave them feeling like the two of you have become the best of friends.

Riding the Bus with my Fiancée

Sometimes my determination to continued politeness is my undoing. It's not that I'm never overtly rude to anyone, it's just that, especially among strangers, I have this astonishing need to have people love me. Does that sound desperate?