Snob or social invalid?

[vicarz]

Not a good sign when I update my LJ more than once a day. 6:38 and I've just returned from a 6-8:30 pm mixer at Mr. Days for new law students. I also showed up late. I had decided it might be a good idea to meet some law people and see how we get along, even though I was expecting a bunch of conservative assholes.

Well.

I showed up, was directed upstairs, and was stuck at the top of the stairs. The small space was wall to wall people, pretty people. Preppy people. Pretty preppie people with flip-flops, pink nails, french tips, large rocked jewelry, and the most recent cell phones. There were a few geeks there, stuck in various corners looking very uncomfortable. I made one trek across the room, not knowing a soul. Most everyone seemed to know a group they came with and were gabbing away. I made my trek back, passing a girl that heard and answered her cell phone in a fraction of a second in a scene that would make clueless proud. I continued my trek straight out the door.

First impressions, bad. I was open minded enough to go, and I knew I could have introduced myself to someone, anyone, and faked my way through a conversation. Did I lack the confidence to do it, or did I decide as I think I did that the effort was just not worth talking to people I gave no crap about?

Comments

Ewwwwwww! pink nails!!

[pmhrh.livejournal.com]

I would have bolted too.
you're not a snob or a social invilid. You're a guy who can find better company and better things to do with his time than faking a conversation with someone not worth it.

[transentient.livejournal.com]

On the one hand, you could have easily dominated these people if you had half-tried, and on the other, why waste the energy?

[dodogrrl.livejournal.com]

Sounds just like I would've pictured it. But I think if I had bothered to go, I would've attempted conversation at least with one of the uncomfortable corner geeks. You don't exactly get points for open-mindedness if you took one look at everyone there & fled.

[syn09.livejournal.com]

Too bad you couldn't have left a pocket sized explosive device behind as a parting gift. A small room.... A high yield explosive... all that ambulance-chaser larvae in one fell swoop.

[cobwellac.livejournal.com]

People like that are more the norm than the exception. It was like sorority bitches and jocks just wanted to expand their time in the same cliques or something. Needless to say that I made very few friends in law school. The friends I did make are great, but I don't regret the majority that I ignored.