Or maybe it’s the new lamp, that’s giving me a headache cos i’m not used to it.

But i think it’s work, cos when i’m tired (plus the damn headache) i have no patience for people.

On impulse i went to see Aps and StephTheVolcano at my neighbourhood bar to grab a couple of drinks before coming back to face more pc screen.
It was so nice catching up with them alone.
Like a breath of new air, or going on a holiday.
That kinda feeling.

One of the waiters came up to us to tell us to order a round of whatever we wanted cos a bunch of guys wanted to buy us drinks.
We told him to tell them it’s okay, we can buy our own drinks.

45 minutes or so later, a stranger came up and tried to chat Steph and i up (Aps left already cos she has to wake up early for work).
I didn’t want to be mean so i said, “You have 30 seconds.”
Steph stated 2 minutes, the generous thing.

“So you’re the girls who turned down our offer to buy you drinks.”
“We’re not being rude. We can buy our own drinks,” i replied somewhat impatiently.
“But there’s nothing wrong with guys buying some pretty girls some drinks…”

Oh great.
Male chauvinist thinking he can save femalekind by providing them alcohol.
Something i really have no patience to deal with after work.

“We’re not like other girls. We can buy our own drinks. Thanks,” i replied flatly.

To summarize it, he was a bit tipsy, not very interesting, harmless really, but i just wanted to talk to Steph.

“Your two minutes are up,” i smile politely at him.
He got the message and left.

I wasn’t that mean i swear.
I was nice – asked him whether he worked nearby, Steph asked where his friends were from, we asked a few questions, enough time for him to give witty answers to make an impression. But nada.

I’m just glad we didn’t accept any drinks -_-

Look, the whole point we all work is so that we can pay for our own stuff.
If we took drinks from the fellow, then we’d feel obliged to layan him and talk.
I might as well be a guest relations officer in a bar (not that i look down on them. it’s tough work – layaning ppl!)

The fact that we already give so much time and effort to work
is so we don’t have to layan people during our rest time
Like Aps said – “I think we just grew old. Don’t want to spend time on people we don’t want to.”

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