Meh.

I was out with a mate of mine, FP, last night in one of the trendier bars in town. He was tagging along at someone's work leaving bash and I was, well, tagging along with him. The early part of the evening was good, but there were only four of us, all guys. We were having a decent conversation and a couple of pints and things were going well.

Once the core party showed up, everything went downhill. FP works in the travel business and a lot of the people in that industry are very, well, insular. I've always found it hard to socialise with these people. They make it hard to get into conversations, which are invariably always related to their jobs and because the pool of people is so small, everyone knows everyone else, even if they work for different companies. Usually, I'm useless at this kind of thing anyway (I much prefer meeting people in smaller groups) and the last thing I need are barriers being put up when I'm trying to join a conversation.

I think it says a lot for that group of people that I got a nicer reception from a girl I accidentally elbowed in the back than I did from my mate's colleagues.