Conferences and Conversations

It so happened that I tagged along with my uncle to a medicalconference at one of the city's star hotels. Obviously, I didn't know a soul there. I was there for free food and drinks. During dinner, I realized the advantages of buffet. I filled up my plate and found a strategic location where I could listen to conversations of people around me. Not eavesdropping because the motive here was very different.

For simplicity sake, let's call it "motivated observation".

Anyways, let me recall a couple of conversations:
A lady dressed in blue: "I got a hairdo at Bounce. These days Ilook into the mirror and tell myself "You have no right to look so hot". A man looking stunning in his skin tight shirt that showcased hisbelly: "I went to Egypt last month. The package costme 48,000".

Two parallel conversations and me in between. Suddenly it struck me,"Since I am bored, why not have some fun at the expense of some people I may not meet again." So what I did is tie up the conversations. I started playing the tied conversations in my mind and this is how they sounded:

The lady: "I got a hairdo in Egypt at Bounce. It cost me 48,000.(It's insane. Egypt of all places for a haircut and it cost 48 freaking thousand bucks. what amazes me is the place. Egypt! Didn't know you could have a haircut costing as much as it did in the land of the Pharoahs where Mummies sleep and Daddies weep. Sorry,couldn't think of a better line!!)

The man: These days I look into the mirror and tell myself "You have no right to look so hot". (This is ridiculous. How can a man think he's hot when his waist is probably 40,could be 42 and definitely not less than 38? A man who's downing mugs of beer like there's no tomorrow! I thought "well the way he's going about his business, there won't be any tomorrow, only day after")

Its crazy. You tie up conversations and they sound funny and bizarre. So the next time you go to a place where you don't know anyone and are wondering how to kill time, you could probably listen to conversations.

P.S. A couple of sentences are invented. THe fact is that I went to a conference and tied up conversations.