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I Can't Stress This Enough...

Seriously. Stop it. We've all been there. You're standing with a group of people at a party (not good friends - acquaintances at best) and you're halfway through an undoubtedly fascinating anecdote about when the girl in the office said she thought Stonehenge was a kind of way to cook a pizza when a knowing, and completely slap-able, smirk crosses the faces of a happy couple standing side-by-side in the Annoyance (which is the correct collective noun for a group of half-strangers thrown together at a party - look it up). An "Annoyance" of Acquaintances Simultaneously, they say into each other's eyes (literally, they say it  into  each other's eyes) "I'll bet he keeps his tent clean!" before sharing a sickening, saccharine giggle and giving each other an "I'm going to die with you and there is nothing I can do about it" eye-embrace. But it goes on. They aren't happy being enveloped in their cocoon of s