Eavesdroppings: Do you eat feet?
About a week and a half ago, my sister and I were having a late night dinner at Tearrific in Chinatown. The tables are quite close together so even though we weren’t trying to listen in on the conversation between this Indian girl and Chinese guy next to us, we couldn’t help but overhear everything throughout the night.
So what caught my attention was when I heard him ask, “what do you eat?” She was, of course, confused but answered with “um… just, regular food, I think…” And in the middle of my bubble tea I overheard him continue with, “Do you eat feet?” At that point, my sister’s eyes went bulgy and bug-eye while we both tried to control our laughter with drinking more tea. She replies with never having tried it and he continues on to name all kinds of edible feet in the world… “No, really? You’ve never tried chicken feet? …. pig feet? …. duck feet?…” At this point, I thought I was going to lose control and laugh my ass off. I have no idea where he was going with this conversation of feet. It reminded me of the episode from Friends when Ross tried to flirt with the pizza delivery girl about different types of odor and odorless gases.
The rest of the night went just as awkward as the beginning. He asked her questions about whether she would eat something with the head still on, meat with the bones intact, fish with their head and eyes on the plate… Throughout all this, as hilarious as it was for me and my sister, I began to feel somewhat sorry for her and even more for him. She is a sheltered girl while he was an awkward guy. It was very clear that they were both on one of the most awkward first dates ever. Towards the end of their meal, I noticed that after my mentioning the iphone to my sister in our own conversation, they discovered that they both had iphones and immediately whipped them out. The rest of their night was spent sharing which apps they had or didn’t have and which apps they should download. I guess that was the only thing they could find that they had in common: the iphone. Sad but reality nowadays.
Last Friday, I had dinner with two friends and we stumbled upon this conversation about how women tend to fall into a connection with each other once they start talking about men, especially the men in their lives or potentials that they hope to see coming down the road. It doesn’t matter what their relationship is or how close they are to each other; there is something through talking about men that seems to have the power to bring women closer. In a way, I’d have to agree, but then I disagreed because that doesn’t always stand true. My friend asked me what topic I use to get to know people and of course, my answer was food. But after witnessing this conversation gone wrong, it proves to me that foodtalk has its dead ends too. Like this date, it doesn’t always work. But at least, it made my dinner all the more humorous.
PS
The guy did not end up paying for the girl, I’m pretty sure that ended as a first and last date. (Wow, FYI guys should always pay on the first few dates!) After arguing about the bill, it took awhile for her to figure out that they paid the same amount, 4 bucks, and he had to walk her through the math. Her math is bad but I hope she’s smart enough not to go on a second date. (Girls don’t mind good, cheap eats, but we’ll quickly forget the guys who are cheap.)
