Have you ever got into a situation in which you were talking to a few person, and in the middle of the conversation, two of them started to have a conversation among themselves, and even ignored you all together? Well, I was in that kind of situation tonight.
Ironically, the one who ignored me was the one who lead the prayer before we had our dinner, asked God to "bless the conversation during the dinner."
It happened after a church Sunday service band practice. The worship leader was wonder if anyone interested in have dinner together. Since I went straight to church after work, so I joined the dinner. Turns out there was 4 person going to the dinner.
I drove to the sushi restaurant someone picked, sat down, and started chatting with a friend about his new iphone and asked what app he used. He told me some apps he liked and started explaining why he liked those apps. I started to realize that the other 2 guys didn't say a thing, so I wondered if they found the app discussion a bit "too geeky and too boring" to them. So I started looking a them once in a while and see when I could get them into the conversation, or even change to subjects that they were interest it. But my friend one those "once talk, can't stop", and by the time he stopped, the other 2 already started their skiing converstation.
Personally I really don't like it when 4 person on the same table, and yet each pair have their own conversation, It's like we didn't know each other and only happen to sit together. So I intentionally stopped a bit, and ask the another 2 friends what they were talking about, and see if my friend can I can join in, Since it was about skiing, there's nothing I can say as I never skied before. My friend did, and so he could chip in. That's fine. I mean, at least 4 of us were once again being "together".
But then we started talking about learning Japanese language, and while I was in the middle of explaining the mobile application Google Translator, the other 2 started to have their own conversation. I was like, dude, I paid my due by pretending like I enjoyed listening about skiing, so the least you could do is at least wait until I finished my conversation before you turned away, Right?
Well, I didn't attempt to establish a united conversation again since then. My friend and I continued my conversation on manga, mobile phone and Japanese, while the other two were talking about who knows what.
And I overheard the song by Cee Lo Green playing from the speaker. "Why do they have to play the clean 'Forget You' version, " I was thinking.
The dinner ended in a very awkward way. The worship leader paid for all of us. I was thankful for that, but still decided to never dining with him ever again. Maybe he had that decision too, found that having dinner with a geeky person like me being such a painful experience.
I was feeling so uneasy about the dinner that I kept thinking about it while I was driving, and was extremely close to crashing into a bus (really, no kidding).
You are asked me why I stopped going to fellowship.
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