Dating when you're 39
Random Dude: You know, I saw your TEDx video and used it as part of my research.
Me: Awww Thanks! It was definitely...
RD: You were big in that video. You certainly have lost weight since then.
Me:
Random Clueless Dude: You know that us, white people and Indians are both caucasians right?
Me: Ah...I don't know about that.
RCD: Because Aryans.
Me: I'm Dravidian though. From the south.
RCD: We're the same. Trust me.
Random Pervy Dude: I hope you don't get mad at me but that young lady in the boots in your picture - Is she single? And do you mind passing along this picture to her?
<Insert dick pic>
Random Asian Dude: Trump is despicable but I still voted for him because identity politics and BLM
Me: You brought about Trump because you didn't like that people wanted others to recognize them and weren't going to take shit lying down.
RAD: Yes.
Me: And all this horrible, terrible, no-good disaster that is present day America - it's good with you?
RAD: Worth it.
Random Argentinian dude: <vast amounts of unseemly gifs>
All the Random Indian dudes:
RID: How about a second date?
Me: I don't think there's much of a connection
RID: I was just thinking the same thing. And also, some free advice for the next time you get a good guy interested in you.
<Insert tons of advice on how I can be less me and more an amenable version>