And where did you say you were from?

So about a week and half ago I moved back to Alaska for the summer to save money to move again in a few months... it sounds like an unrealistic choice but it made and still makes perfect sense to me.

I had a serving job all lined up for the summer about a month before I even got to town, that's right folks, I'm ambitious. This means I had two days off before jumping right into work again. Everyone that I work with is lovely, albeit young and perhaps a bit "small town" but let's be realistic here, I grew up on an island and have lived in a mountain town for ten years - so, I'm "small town" too.

I remember working at a hotel a few years back and my boss telling me to stop talking about myself and ask the customers more questions about themselves, as I recall it he said "people aren't interested in other people, they just want someone to ask them about themselves." This is true. Very few people have asked me anything about myself, but they sure are eager to jump into a story that they wish to tell. I could ask them a personal question and have a thirty minute response - if I chose to listen that long.

I believe this is teaching me another lesson about being a "functional adult": You become less juvenile about your self-absorption and learn which events merit it and which times you just ask "And where did you say you were from?".