One time I went To a restaurant a few years ago to meet a friend. We were coming from diff places in separate cars.. and this restaurant is I an “instagrammy” city where everyone’s young and beautiful.. I get there before him, I order for both of us since it takes them forever to make the food.. for some reason I chose to sit in the dead center of the restaurant.. imagine a grid of tables like this: (the O’s are tables)
O———O
O———O
O—-O—O
O———O
O———O
Like a dumbass, I picked the one in the middle.. like there was a spotlight on me. Anyone who walks in sees me first. 5’9” and NW3 diseased looking.. The food comes,my friend still isn’t there yet, so there’s my food and there’s a plate in front of me with nobody in the chair.. I sat there like a retard thinking he’ll show up any minute. Maybe 15 minutes pass and I’m starting to feel uncomfortable like everybody’s already seen me just sitting here like a retard this whole time. I don’t know what facial expression to make to make it known that I’m not crushed by this, but I can’t come up with anything. Wasn’t crushed or anything, He was just in traffic. But it looked like I got stood up. It was so humiliating.. I couldn’t take it anymore, I started eating and it looked even more ridiculous. I set myself up for such humiliation..l
Finally he arrived and I guess onlookers figured out I wasn’t stood up by a girl, but it was like half an hour of pure torture.