My family bores me. My next to immediate family even more so. But there will always be times where you're trapped with them for extended pediods of time. This was one of those times. Thankfully they're simple enough to generalize to people in general.
We were watching a peacock go by, none of us wanting to frighten him off. Everyone was paying close attention for way too long a time, cameras at the ready. Eventually it was so long that I found it funny because, had the peacock actually shown its tail, we would have all lost all interest immediately, we would have gotten all we wanted, we would have won and moved on. Instead he kept stringing all these "superior" people along with a fake not-even promise. Patience also has its limits though and the peacock ended up keeping itself to itself, winning in a way, if you can even project a concept of human vanity onto the peacock which it most likely doesn't have, it merely does not care. But as we walked away, slightly annoyed at the promise we had assumed onto the creature, I got the lesson from the peacock. Showing or not showing is not the game, it's meaningless. The real Thing is setting up the expectation and nailing the timing perfectly. Timing is everything.
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