Event

THE DAY BEFORE THE EVENT

"Hey, did you here about the eh.."

- "Yeah, it sounded pretty good. Are you going there?"

"Not sure. It depends on who else is going there. Will you be going?"

- "Of course I'll be going! Everyone is going. You should come, too!"

This must have been event invitation #976 in his life. The first one was when his best friend turned three years old and threw a party in his parents' garden. Event invitations kept following throughout his life. The problem was that once he had attended an event, he could never remember them later on. Perhaps the day after, he would remember the conversations he had with a certain person, but he would already have forgotten the name. Maybe he remembered he had been dancing to some music, but he would never be able to tell which song because he'd be too focused on his own dancing moves.

"Yeah, not sure if I'll be going though" he replied.

- "Why not?"

"Dunno, man. If everyone is going I don't really see the point."

- "But you just said you wanted it to depend on who else is going?"

"Yeah, because, you know. When everyone is going to be there, it will be, you know, a bit..."

Of course he had no idea what he was talking about. He did not have a reason to go, neither did he have a reason to go.

The strange thing was, though, that the more he talked this kind of nonsense, the more the people around him perceived him as interesting. So when he ended the conversation with "Nah, well, maybe I'll let you know later then", he was certain that his conversation partner would become intrigued by him so another invitation would follow.

THE DAY AFTER THE EVENT

- "Hey, did you enjoy yourself yesterday?" he was asked

"Yeah, what about you?"

- "Yeah man, it was great! I mean, everyone was there!"

"Yeah I guess that's why you must have missed me then."

- "Oh sorry dude. Too many people, too many drinks. But why don't you come along to the thing that's going on next Friday?"

At this point he realised that this was invitation #977. Only three more to go until he could not take this any longer. He gave an intense look as his conversation partner and yelled in his face: "No!"