Open to suggestion

My mother used to tell me, ‘If your friends asked you to go jump into the ocean, you would’.

And that’s how I turned out. Just that my friends haven’t asked me to jump into the ocean yet.

But I think that’s just how my friends like me. I am very eas­ily per­suaded. Espe­cially by women. And tonight was no dif­fer­ent. Sam took me to din­ner, say­ing chicken rice and salted veg­etable soup was just the tonic for a long day at work, and I agreed, even though I knew that she was just han­ker­ing for chicken rice and not really con­cerned about what was really good for me.

Then we browsed round the shops, not really look­ing for any­thing, but com­ing across a nice pair of shoes she said she thought she wanted, and which she bought, and which she per­suaded me to buy a pair of for myself.

Then we browsed some more, not look­ing for any­thing else, but com­ing across the shop that sold Hava­ianas slip­pers, where she picked out the pair of slip­pers iden­ti­cal to the ones she had, and per­suaded me to buy a pair for myself.

Same pair of shoes, same pair of slip­pers, but I’m not wor­ried this would lead to some­thing. It’s not as if it’s as per­ma­nent as a tat­too, which I have one, and which is iden­ti­cal to one some­one else has, because that some­one else per­suaded me to have the same one.

Nope. Don’t mean a thing. Just like when some­one else told me some time ago, ‘hey, you should start a blog’.

’l like the pair you have but you should get the pair I have’, Sam said

Tag: Hava­ianas