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The thought was actually brought on by this out of town woman that sat at the bar next to this out of town guy about a week ago. She was butch-yet-feminine for starters, her hair was sort of like...she kind of looked like a young version of Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler, if that makes sense? Smooth skin, but whispy old wrestler type hair?
Like, Andy Richter would do this bit. She sits at the bar and at first is pretty silent and keeping to herself, but then she catches wind somehow that the asian guy is from out of town and she strikes up a conversation that he absolutely can't escape from. The entire thing involves her waving her arms, nodding her head as she talks and as she listens almost entirely off beat just to exert dominance over the pace of the conversation. Most of her stories start with a version of "my aunt" or "my dad always said" and goes on to describe some finance or travel scenario I just feel like most families are not spending their free time talking about at the rate she makes it seem.
Being a restaurant downtown and out of step with most of the city, we get a lot of out of towners looking for "what they're used to" and I see a lot of these guys. That it was a woman this time made it more memorable, but it's always the same build of person. Stocky, under 5'10", small hands and huge forearms, company t-shirt or windbreaker on, too small watch, finds both everything they say and everything their conversation partner says worth a belly laugh (but like a heh HEH, not a hahahahHAHA), and just can NOT let the conversation end once it starts, because there's always another tier of airline credit card to aspire toward or potential sales client to mine if they can just find the angle. And the entire bar/restaurant is trapped analyzing their interactions because they can be heard from every seat in the place.
I just have no way of relating to these people, so I've really zeroed in on them over the past three years trying to figure them out.
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