Working with someone like sharing an apartment, is one of the fastest and truest ways to get to know someone. In September I drove with my dear friend Sabina from Los Angeles to San Francisco and discussed over pie, and Route 1, our first impressions of each other. Unlike a lot of first impressions, these had little to do with physical appearance. We were both wearing our mandatory Southern Hospitality t-shirts and blue jeans and therefore personal style was unknown.
Luckily for us our first impressions were wrong. Sabina assumed that when I shared the new and ridiculous rules regulating the filling of barbecue sauce that I wanted to boss her around rather than protect her from the also new and ridiculous Napoleon-esque manager. I assumed that her shouting "whaTTT!!!??!" at anything and everything I said was an attitude problem rather than a hearing problem (still debatable). Seth Godin has said that "every interaction might be the whole thing", making it more important now than ever that a first impression be what we want to represent us. Of course making a good first impression is ideal, but if you are lucky enough, making good on a bad one can be all the more fun. What else can make you laugh so hard your stomach hurts and eyes well with tears?
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