Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Free Pringles are the Best Way to Make Friends

My roommate Mekala had her friend Seamus spending a few nights at our place while he was in town. He is going to travel the world in the course of ten months, and he made Ireland is his first. Mekala had to write a paper, so I took Seamus with me and a girl from Hobart named Brittany to the Crane Bar. When we got to the Crane, it was an older crowd for sur,e but there were a accordion player and a fiddle player in the corner playing some good traditional Irish music. The three of us got drinks (I got a Bulmer's hard cider) and we listened and chatted. Afterwards, we went into a convenience store on the street for some reason I can’t remember. I saw a section of Pringles and I instantly knew that I needed some. We each bought a tube of Pringles and walked into town. We knew that we wouldn’t be able to get inside anywhere with our own food, so we just walked the streets and offered Pringles to everyone we saw. A lot of people either ignored us or said no and gave us a strange look. But there were some who were very excited about the idea, and after asking if they were drugged, happily took some and we would start a conversation. We met these two girls, Suzie and someone else, who decided that we were their new best friends. We walked together in a group, because they wanted to go to Carbon (a dance club) and we were going to start heading home both they were in the same direction. We got to Carbon and stood around for a bit talking and exchanging numbers with them. I ran into Marcus, a guy I met who showed me how to get to the Quadrangle on campus, and I gave him some Pringles. By the time we got home, our Pringles were gone, but it was a great way to spend a tube of Pringles. 

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