Last night, a friend asked, 'so what do you usually do after work?''.
We were winding down in the car after an alumni meeting and dinner (my first, his 5th). After a crash ice-breaking session with a lot of people I've never met before, and few rounds of game, I found the quiet atmosphere in the car welcoming (relieving even).
'So what do you usually do after work?' His voice stirred the stupor around me. 'Where do you hang out?' I straightened up, braced myself to give the inevitable answer - needless to say, it's not my favourite question.
"Go home, cook dinner, laze about reading books or get online..." I let my sentence teeter, silence hung between us like curtain.
"So, basically you don't hang around much." He spoke the words with a hint of finality to them, as if concluding the entire conversation. I smiled.
2 comments:
Well, define "hanging around".. ;p
People often make the mistake of assuming life at home equals no life..
Kak Sofie,
Which is why I smiled at the end of conversation. I hate giving answers to standard questions, because none of my answers are standard these days... And I just couldn't be bothered to explain.
:)
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