I had been mulling at work over the fact that since I moved to Central Texas in January I've made one friend.  The people around here aren't really interesting.  Maybe it's because the city isn't interesting and the people take that on in their personalities, but I find more uninteresting qualities about everyone here than I can overlook.

This is especially true at work, where I have like three people that I can stand to actually talk to.  I try not to be mean about it, and I'm certainly not mean to them; if they need help I help them and I'm polite and talk to them when they address me and stuff.  But mostly I just don't feel that anyone around here is interesting.  It makes me miss my friends and I can't wait to leave here at the end of December.

Yesterday I was waiting for everyone to hand me their checkouts (oh, I'm a head wait at the Outback Steakhouse here) and one of our key managers sat down to chit chat with me.  He's one of three gay guys that work at our store.  Myself, him and another guy.  We don't really interact with one another...and after I dismissed the idea of being a friend of gay guy #3, I just didn't really invest in a lot of time trying to figure out if I would like gay guy #2.  That was totally my mistake.  We got to talking and it was like this door opened up for me and everything that I had wanted to talk about with people that I couldn't was right there on the table.  He was so interesting and nothing I said made me feel that he thought I was crazy or wierd or whatever.  It was a genuinely good conversation and I really liked it.

Sometimes I judge people and I think that when I do that it's based on something accurate but often times I don't give people a chance to show me other sides of their personalities.  I think in some ways I've been really jaded by stupidity in other people.  And because of that stupidity, when I get vulnerable with people I often get some really bad results, so I just decided to stop doing it.  That conversation restored my faith in people a little...it was good to just talk.

I guess "don't judge a book by its cover" does apply here.