I attended a so-called Somali comedy show by Oday Cabdule on Saturday night. The proceeds will go to charity, the organizers claim. Hopefully it turns out that way. The event took place at Minneapolis Convention Center on 12/20/08 between 9-12midnight.
Most people were there ostensibly to contribute, but in fact to find soul mates. There were many singles. Due to cultural reasons, some Somalis prefer to keep their mate hunting intentions vague. Others are reluctant to appear desperate in their pursuit for a partner-in-love though they are. Consequently, it is convenient for them to join or form pseudo-cause-driven (depending on the founders’ true intentions) ad hoc committees. It's worth noting that some of them have both objectives in mind: the explicit and the implicit one: to assist the needy ones and simultaneously to link hearts. On rare occasions, they kill two birds with one stone.
Outside, in the hallways, they gave each other the looks and the smiles, and gazed on each other's shining high foreheads common to Somalis; each waiting to see whether the other will summon up the courage to ask him/her out while limiting conversations to mundane matters.
After a great deal of indecision about how to move the night forward without making it appear like a blind date, a group of about a dozen (myself included) moved on to a popular rendezvous for after-party breakfast goers in uptown Minneapolis. There, they devoured their food, chitchatted, laughed, bored each other to death, took up their bill to the counter and departed. I cannot tell who got whose contact. I wish them all luck, however.
Me wondering how many of them hooked up.
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