We know age is a social construct though we all know that decay is something different. I mean I got wrinkles but not yet so much. But people almost always estimate my age ten years younger so so. And I met this person fresh out of school who was so wise and mature and somehow "old" in so many ways I could not believe her age of 20. I would have estimated her to be about 38 or 40. But her smooth face didn't fit. And then there are those guys I had in that meeting in Paris. Almost twice my age. Still boys. Still in the sandbox. Still ready to pee on the sandcastles of others. Never got beyond 6. Sigh.

Tell me the last flat jokes you've been told! To give you an example what I mean read this that somebody told me recently: Difference between straight couple and lesbian couple? When the husband gets home and finds wife blowing hot air of her hair dryer down her pants - He. What's up? - She: Curly hair is the new trend. Same scene among a lesbian couple - She: What's up darling? She: Heating your dinner honey! ---- It's not because this is working on weird ideas about lesbians but it's about being not really funny and meant to insult me a bit and entertain me a bit and testing my ability of finding things funny and testing my general humour? Point is: it's flatout boring and extremely lame. Tell me yours!

You are at a meeting. A team of the telly news are there too and recording some interviews. The woman with the mic directs her camera man and her sound recorder to the person next to me and starts an interview. I know this is a unique opportunity. I will never have a chance to talk to her again. But she doesn't ask me anything and seems in a rush to capture more of the event elsewhere. I try to enter a conversation as soon as she finished this. But I stand no chance. She rushes away with her team and ignored my obvious attempt to talk. She ignored also that I nervously hopped from one foot to the other. Also she ignored my smile. Later I saw the team waiting in the lobby. Before they could leave I took my chance and introduced myself. I got her card and she wrote her private number on it. Now: Shall I call her?