Last week, while waiting on Centraal Station in Rotterdam for my girlfriend to arrive, I tried to enjoy myself by watching around in every direction. Lots of people wandering around and that doesn’t make it easier for me to spot where I came for. Anyway, next to me was also a guy standing and waiting for someone. Cool, we were both waiting for somebody I thought, I’ve almost made friends. We were now both watching in every direction and sometimes we stared for a little moment to eachother. Suddenly a group with a few girls and a guy came standing in front of us. The guy in that group was enthousiastic about something really stupid, I thought by myself; you are just acting like you have to impress your girlies. The group left and at the same time my also-waiting-almost-friend looked at them with a face and expression like “pff, what a stupid monkey”. Great, I started to like my also-waiting-almost-friend, because he thinks the same way like I do.

Then it happened, we were both standing there for about ten minutes now and he started talking to me! – in Dutch ofcourse – “Can I ask you something?” I replied with “Yes.” He then replied with something you’d never expect: “Do you sell shoes?”
My whole world collapsed, why the f**ck would I sell shoes? Do I look like a shoe seller? I replied with a “No.” with a laugh to keep it friendly. He then told me that he had an appointment with someone where he’d buy shoes from, but that person didn’t show up already for half an hour. He was now disappointed and he decided to leave me alone.