At my high school, I am infamously eccentric. I wear tin foil as clothing, loudly voice my support for the ideas of Malcolm X (despite being white), rap and argue for fun. I am not a wigger before that comes up; I wear tye-dye and sometimes a fez. I am beyond conventional subculture. I act this way because I hate the town I live in (the locals were cruel to me before I did any of this so I decided that I would act strange to annoy them.) For the last couple of years, I've been spending my school days with a czech immigrant who believes he's the next Nietzche and a Buddhist kid. I was fairly content with the arrangement until I decided to reclaim my heritage by converting to Judaism. My two ex-friends are apparently extreme anti-semites. Now I've decided to assimilate into mainstream culture but I'm not quite sure how to do it. To say the least, I have a reputation. I hate the locals but I think they will treat me better than these two jerks. I also have a crush on a black girl but I'm afraid of coming off patronizing because of my previous black power rhetoric. This is a strange situation and I dont know how to get out of it.
"So, What Do You Do for Fun?"
She asks it casually, mid-sip. And you feel the floor open up, because the honest answer is work, gym, and a couple shows you're half-watching.
Women rarely say this out loud, but a man with a life is attractive before he says a word. The guy who spent Saturday deep-sea fishing and came back with photos and a story — he walks in already interesting.
The "22 Rules" pushed me to build a life worth talking about. Turns out the fastest way to be interesting to women is to be interested in your own life first.
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