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Originally Posted by The Batlord
Why on Earth did you go on so long about spilled detergent?
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Because it sets up the climax before I turn the tables on the reader. And also because it is the actual timeline of events.
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Originally Posted by The Batlord
Annoying, rambling, old people who want to talk your head off about all the boring **** they did in their lives that nobody cares about, does not make somewhere "the place to be". I probably would have been willing to chew my own foot off to get away from that conversation within five minutes.
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I absolutely agree with you in most cases, but the guy was intelligent, so I didn't mind talking to him/listening to his stories. He volunteered all of that. I didn't have to coax it out of him. Keep in mind that intelligent conversation from strangers (in real life) is a super race occurrence for me, so I didn't feel the need to bolt from small talk like in most cases.
I wanted to take a picture with him just because, but things were already weird enough.