by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I’ve reached the age where I can have a very long conversation with a couple of strangers….and just leave. There is something very liberating about having a great conversation and it being value free.
As I’ve gotten older, this has started to happen to me more often.
And, I think, if I was in, say, New York City, it would happen so often that I would be something of a legend in bars across the city as someone who had really long, really interesting conversations then just…vanished.
There is something to be said for not having to get involved in someone else’s life. It might be different if I was, like, successful and stuff, but as it stands, I have such strong opinions on a wide range of controversial subjects that it’s probably for the best that I have brief, intense conversations with random strangers at bars and then that’s it.
I’ve been to NYC on occasion and I’ve done this and it was a lot of fun. Though I do think if I was in LA and I did this that I would inevitably run into some producer and leave the bar with a three picture screenwriting deal or something. I definitely “give good mind” when it comes to such things.
But, during my extended loser phase, I think just I am just going to swoop into bars, “give good mind” and then vanish into the night. I just don’t want to have to worry about explaining my loser life and how I got myself into this particular situation.
One day, though…..
