Something Never Done Before

Typically, and by typically I mean 999 times out of 1000 is social and public situations where i know no one I am hidden behind my thick fatty candy shell and keep to my self. Most often I will go so far as to limit chatter with those around me that I do know as not to pull others around us that we do not know into our conversation. In simple terms I'm shy. I can honestly say I have never made a friend outside of school or workplace interactions. Mind you this is not because I never wanted to it was just I never wanted to insert myself where I may not be welcomed or for that matter wanted.

Me I'm the quiet guy in the corner at his own wedding reception. I am the kid that went to few party's in High School or in my later teen years and when I did I found the one or two people I knew and stuck to them like glue.

Well my friends, that all changed and in the oddest of circumstances. My wife and I traveled many miles from home and made two great new friends of total strangers. Though Small talk and then while contemplating the mental and physical ambiguity of a strange person ahead of us in line we seemed to be similar thinking people. After back and fourth movie references about the person in question whom i thought resembled Buffalo Bill from the Silence of the Lambs and whom one of our new found friends called Boo-Boo-Kitty-Fuck, I knew we had new friends.

Still somewhat uneasy we did not follow to sit next to them in the theater, but low and behold they invited us to join them. After more conversation and the screening they invited us to join them for a drink. It was such a great time and as it turns out we were all parents out on a date night of sorts. It was wonderful to get to go out with my wife, make great new friends and have a great time.

Seems little to most I know, but to me it's another brick removed from my wall and maybe a sign that others can be removed as well and chains broken as well.

All in all we had a great time seeing the screening of Red State, followed by a Q&A with Kevin Smith, Melissa Leo and Stephen Root. The best things however were spending time with my wife and meeting our new friends Sean and Jillian.