I am interested in you! Your history fascinates me — where are you from? And where are you going?

I was blurting and carrying on with a basic cluster of friends this afternoon when one of them, quite without warning, gave me The Look. The one that lets you know you’ve said something moronic, the kind of thing that temporarily knocks one’s social standing to zero. As I said, this was entirely without warning or preamble, so I was quite surprised. Of course, I was talking about her family in an unsavory manner, so that may have had something to do with it.

But back to my original question –

(vector_black sits down)