L'auto Dîner

I had a pretty good time at the L'auto's Club dinner. It wasn't exactly what I was looking for, but the food was amazing.

The group itself is comprised of a much older more affluent crowd. I kind of expected it, but was eager to get out and meet new people.

Most of them owned pre-war cars. Circa, 1930 and one of the girls who I was talking too had here first 3 cars picked out. A Porsche, Mercedes 300, and something else in the 30-99K euro price range.

Over all it was an entertaining night.

I got home wondering where I fit in though. This crowd was a bit to pretentious for me. But I have had many run ins with some who I feel like aren't in my league. Am I pretentious for having no interest in conversation with a panhandler?

I also got to thinking about how 2 people can experience life so differently. Take a high school friend I used to work with. I was literally standing right next to her when she met her husband. They now have 2 kids and have been married for close to 10 years. Moi? I'm living in Paris, and single.

I used to think people like her were a wealth of knowledge for how to find Mr. Right. But looking at her situation and the ones I found myself in from that time I really see how much of an accident it was she ever met him. People who I didn't have first hand knowledge of their meeting have told me all of the old clichés of "when you're not looking," "work on you," "at the right time..." I could probably write a book of romantic advice cliches to avoid unless you want to piss a single person off.

In reality, I think I might subscribe to the chaos theory of dating. It's all so very random. Single people fling themselves at each other like molecules till one of the sticks. I literally think its a matter of meeting a person who is on the same emotional level as you, who desires to be committed to a level you are happy with, and with some sort of x factor calculation chemistry.

I think it is also a matter of cutting through all of the relationship based stereotypes like, "once a cheater always a cheater." it is true that if he cheats on you, it's probably time to rethink your relationship, but to state the above you are literally saying a guy is his mistake which is not really any way to view anybody.