While staying in our hostel in Dublin we ran into Martin, essentially our concierge. Martin was awesome, he was quick witted, friendly and he had the cool Irish accent which makes everything a little bit better. His desk had a sign on it which announced that he was the "director of first impressions." We were playing cards behind his desk during a slow time and he came up and talked to us to pass the time. This is when things started to get a little awkward.
During our 20 minute conversation he must have made about 5 jokes about how his parents were dead. He said "you know a great man once said 'it's a shame to lose 1 parent... but if you lose 2 that is just irresponsible.' I suppose I need to get some responsibility." and "You know some people tell me I need to go get my mother, but I haven't got the guts" (at this one he held his hands around his stomach to drive the point home that he was joking about her death... it was weird. ) We laughed along awkwardly because we didn't really know what else to do. Overall, Martin is a really good guy but I think he is covering up being really sad about his parents by joking about it with Americans he has only known for like 15 minutes. Either that or Irish people have a weird sense of humor.
P.S. Yes I know it is weird I took a picture with him... but I took the awkward bullet for the sake of this blog. You're welcome.
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