I didn't know what I was doing there, but yet I wasn't leaving. I kept erasing the rings my glass left on the table and it wasn't until the third time I did it that I got I was trying to erase the fact I was even there. But yet I wasn't leaving. The ice had melted in my glass, but that was fine because I'd long since finished my drink and I wasn't in the mood to overpay for another one. I wasn't really in the mood to be in a place like this, with the noise they wanted to call music.
He sat down across from me and placed his beer bottle on the table before he asked if that seat was taken. If it had been, why the hell would I still be here, was what I wanted to ask him, but I didn't. I just shook my head. He asked me what I did for a living, the worst ice breaker, the worst pickup line, but at least that meant he didn't know who I was. I said what I did didn't matter since I wasn't doing it right now, and right now was what mattered. I didn't want him to mistake what I was there for.