7. Lydia Davis

Over-packed room + Rude, late-arriving women standing directly in front of you as if you were there, not to see Lydia Davis read, but to stare at their buttocks = You stand up on your plastic chair, a socially unacceptable person at a posh and polite literary reading



A representative Lydia Davis story:

BORING FRIENDS
We know only four boring people. The rest of our friends we find very interesting. However, most of the friends we find interesting find us boring: the most interesting find us the most boring. The few who are somewhere in the middle, with whom there is reciprocal interest, we distrust: at any moment, we feel, they may become too interesting for us, or we too interesting for them.

(taken from McSweeney's Internet Tendency, here: http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2001/10/25davisweek4.html)