Conversations people would rather be having (do not read, editing)



Last time C's sister and look alike K was in town, we lunched with her and her newly transsexual(f-to-m) friend Cory. We had dined with Cory one year prior just before her transformation. Although my mind was full of detailed questions on the operation and results, I politely smiled and discussed the requisite bay area conversation :weather and real estate. Cory was really boy watching and probably wanted to talk about the hotties that were walking by.



I've been trying to make a a few new friends lately, but really there is too much pussy footing in adult conversation. Can one know the map and terrain of another person by conversation alone? For the social norm, it takes too much delicacy to intuit where another's boundaries lie. What would people talk about if there were no verbal boundaries? A great many people would resort to mating and money. Both exhaustible and exhausted topics. Maybe secret fixations. Forget verbal boundaries, what about behavioral ones.



Take C's old roommate Foster, a rather rare combination of endearing and monstrous behavior. One time C and Foster were sitting at a Cuban bar when C heard Foster's signature squirrel laugh- hu-ee hu-ee hu-ee. Apparently Foster had peed into his beer bottle and drunk it in plain sight of a busy bar on a Friday night. He goes through a great many phases and I don't know if the golden beverage stuck for long. Foster could only really study well sitting on the toilet but was deathly afraid of hemorroids; hence he had to abandon efforts towards med school. Foster finally found a niche in the movie industry. He last visted us when working on LadyKillers. I had gotten so used to Foster so that the narrow range of human behavior that I normally experience has gotten intolerably numbing. But even Rob is becoming respectable. He lived for years on Dave Weaver's couch paying him $150 a month. Foster finally saved enough money to buy a 5 bedroom house which he will rent out to Dave and all the other people who's ever rented out their couch to him.