You're at a bar and you see a guy walk up to a girl and ask for her number. You've been watching both of them for a bit and the girl has a boyfriend who's in the bathroom, but the guy doesn't know that, and his friends have been egging him on to ask her out for five minutes and the guy is slightly drunk.
The girl politely declines to give him her number, and says she has a boyfriend. The guy proceeds to list off why he's better than some boyfriend he's sure she's making up just to get him to go away. Then the boyfriend walks up behind the guy hitting on his girlfriend and tells him to leave, but the first guy is too drunk for sense. So he hits the second guy in the chest, and the first guy hits him back, and then either it gets broken up or they keep beating each other depending on what kind of bar it is.
And you've seen the exact same exchange happen so often that you could probably recite each line by heart with only slight variations. The guy who's overconfident and thinks he's amazing, the girl who wants to just stick to her boyfriend, the boyfriend who's overprotective...
People can change, but it always feels like there's a tendency for people to fall into roles, and it's like you're watching the same plays over and over and there's just different actors who are reading the same script and the only differences are them putting slight personal touches on the characters. Different voices, different posture, but the same character.
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You're at a bar and you see a guy walk up to a girl and ask for her number. You've been watching both of them for a bit and the girl has a boyfriend who's in the bathroom, but the guy doesn't know that, and his friends have been egging him on to ask her out for five minutes and the guy is slightly drunk.
The girl politely declines to give him her number, and says she has a boyfriend. The guy proceeds to list off why he's better than some boyfriend he's sure she's making up just to get him to go away. Then the boyfriend walks up behind the guy hitting on his girlfriend and tells him to leave, but the first guy is too drunk for sense. So he hits the second guy in the chest, and the first guy hits him back, and then either it gets broken up or they keep beating each other depending on what kind of bar it is.
And you've seen the exact same exchange happen so often that you could probably recite each line by heart with only slight variations. The guy who's overconfident and thinks he's amazing, the girl who wants to just stick to her boyfriend, the boyfriend who's overprotective...
People can change, but it always feels like there's a tendency for people to fall into roles, and it's like you're watching the same plays over and over and there's just different actors who are reading the same script and the only differences are them putting slight personal touches on the characters. Different voices, different posture, but the same character.
[He's old.]