I Want Enchiladas

Yes. Sad to say, I am coerced by Yahoo.com commercials/news reports.

Allow me to explain: I was opening my web browser and saw a rather delicious looking picture of two enchiladas on the Yahoo news stories box. So now I want some... even though I just had a most glorious dinner with a friend.

ANYWAYS! That being said, I had a very... interesting day.

For my psychology class, we have an assignment to "break a social norm". I agreed to help my friend out with hers and since we needed to document it somehow, she got me to be the sneaky, not-so-innnocent-looking video camera person.

Her project went like this: (Keep in mind that we all look seventeen or eighteen) She waits around in some public place and a guy friend of ours that she recruited earlier comes and proposes to her. He would give her a bouquet of flowers and then get on one knee to propose. She then answers in surprise and skepticism and tells him that she thinks they're too young and wants to wait, essentially rejecting him.

They had a little trouble with the acting at first, but they got it down eventually. It was 80 percent convincing, but I had to hide out so that people wouldn't be... disturbed by the sketchy looking teenager with a video camera.

The point of the project was to get bystanders' reactions to such a young proposal and consequent rejection. Most people actually ignored us and walked away. A few figured we were doing some school project and one guy was really awesome.

She'd sat down next to him while he was reading a book and when our friend proposed to her, I watched him do his best to mind his own business. He glanced at them a couple times and it was pretty clear that he wasn't reading his book anymore. :)

Anyways, we got an interview with him afterwards and he was really cool about it. He told us that he was a little unsure at first but when our friend got down on one knee, he knew. He also told us that he was surprised/a little amused that she rejected him. This guy was really cool to talk to and probably gave us the best 'evidence' of the night.

Haha. Anyways, that's why I spent two hours in the mall on a Wednesday night... Not because I was shopping, but because I was watching a friend propose to and get rejected by another friend at least eight times in a row.

G'night all!
-Me