I was with my good friend at a coffee shop. I normally don’t drink coffee, but my friend does and I was in a real “When in Rome” situation. So I was ordering my coffee and the guy behind the counter was one of those super energetic type of coffee peddlers, you know the annoying kind, so he took my order and yelled at me to buy a cupcake. “Buy a cupcake!” he said, “Fine I’ll buy a cupcake!” I yelled back. I pay, instantly receive a giant cupcake which might as well have been the size of a real cake, and then I get in line to wait for my coffee to be made. That’s right, a separate line just for waiting; that’s how you know business is doing very well. Anyway, while in this line my friend immediately gets his coffee and goes off to pick a place for us to sit. This leaves me alone in line and holding a cupcake the size of the plate that it is on. Here is where we get into the interaction part. There is a girl standing a few feet in front of me who is, by all means, fairly attractive. She then turns around, proceeds to walk towards me, and then opens her mouth to speak.
“Hey, what is that? It looks delicious!”
“I thought it was a brownie.”
Me (in a non-sarcastic way):
“Well, they’re both small cakes.”
(Stares at me. Makes a face, not a good one. And then walks away.)
What the hell was this? After I grabbed my coffee and sat down I racked my brain for an answer as to why that conversation, if it was even long enough to be one, ever happened. I also came up with some points as to why that conversation bothered me so much.
Why come talk to me and present me with a question if you aren’t going to have a real conversation with me?
She didn’t need to say anything to me, I could have lived my whole life not knowing who she was or about her weird brownie/cupcake confusion.
You obviously know what a cupcake looks like!
Who the hell confuses a cupcake for a brownie? Everyone knows what a cupcake looks like! It’s probably one of the most recognizable desserts.
I was being nice! I was trying to be some kind of funny or witty, but it didn’t work!
This is a common problem for me, I try and say things or put some personality out there and people hardly respond to it.
This is pretty much what every interaction with strangers I have is like. They’re confusing and lead to nowhere. But I will soldier on in this Carnival Cruise of life, and I will never talk to anyone while holding a cupcake in a coffee line again.
