Coffee Table Declarations
Monday, June 07, 2004
I had my monthly book club meeting last week. We had just finished reading the book I recommended. I was so relieved that everyone liked it.
There is some drama in the book club however. There is a new lady who doesn't quite fit in. She is very argumentative and dominating over the conversation. She was greatly offended over the fact that an adult in the book used a bad word to a 15 year old, as she told us about 80 thousand times. That's what she was offended about, nevermind anything else in the book which I won't reveal.
Not only that but she displayed two socially unacceptable behaviors. One was telling me I should come to her church and then going on about it for several minutes. That just raises a red flag for me. It vaguely reminds me of when I was leaving my job at the grocery store at the age of 16 and was approached in the dark parking lot by a random girl who asked if I wanted to come to her church and could she have my phone number as well? Yikes!
The second socially unacceptable behavior was that she actually took off her shoe and started rubbing her foot! At the table, right next to me! I was eating a sandwich at the time and I whole heartedly lost my appetite.
After the meeting she took off rather quickly and the rest of us gathered outside for some good old fashioned gossip. One lady said to me, since I am new to the group as well, "by the way, we really really like you Katie". Which I guess is the upside to having a socially inept member of any group - everyone else can't help but compare favorably.
Oh, and here is the book we're reading for next month.
There is some drama in the book club however. There is a new lady who doesn't quite fit in. She is very argumentative and dominating over the conversation. She was greatly offended over the fact that an adult in the book used a bad word to a 15 year old, as she told us about 80 thousand times. That's what she was offended about, nevermind anything else in the book which I won't reveal.
Not only that but she displayed two socially unacceptable behaviors. One was telling me I should come to her church and then going on about it for several minutes. That just raises a red flag for me. It vaguely reminds me of when I was leaving my job at the grocery store at the age of 16 and was approached in the dark parking lot by a random girl who asked if I wanted to come to her church and could she have my phone number as well? Yikes!
The second socially unacceptable behavior was that she actually took off her shoe and started rubbing her foot! At the table, right next to me! I was eating a sandwich at the time and I whole heartedly lost my appetite.
After the meeting she took off rather quickly and the rest of us gathered outside for some good old fashioned gossip. One lady said to me, since I am new to the group as well, "by the way, we really really like you Katie". Which I guess is the upside to having a socially inept member of any group - everyone else can't help but compare favorably.
Oh, and here is the book we're reading for next month.
