hierarchy. we think it only exists in the royal family, but if we look closely, hierarchy exists EVERYWHERE. of course in the animal kingdom there is hierarchy, the meat eaters overpowering the herbivores. there is hierarchy in the office. but there is also always hierarchy among friends.


when i was in primary school, everyone used to flaunt hierarchy among friends. what better way than to do so with the help of the autograph book. when u wrote in someone else's autograph book, u wud write all your particulars, then your "faves". under faves, there was a heading called friends. then under that, you'd divide all your friends into "bestest best", "best", "good", etc. and the one whose name that came under bestest best most number of times was the most popular, everyone else hated him/her cos they wanted to be him/her.

but now that we think we're all grown up, heirarchy becomes more subtle. it is considered crass by some to even use the words "best friend"- how juvenile it sounds. no, now we tell everyone else words like "really really good friend", but the person we're fooling is only ourselves, and if your listener is really slow on the uptake, perhaps he would be fooled too.

so how then do we figure out hierarchy in adults? a simple way exists, but you need a friend with a car and an occasion where that friend is going to drive some other friends around. now observe carefully, who sits where? usually it is the person who is closest to the driver who gets the passenger seat. of course there are exceptions to this rule: if one friend has a phobia of sitting in front, if the spouse/gf/bf of the driver is one of the passengers, if one person is getting off before the other, if one person just happened to reach the car first and open the passenger side door.....

of course, if you want to avoid this kind of politics, get your own car, mister!

:P

Vamos Rafa @12:47 AM

nothin here, buddy. look @ the skin, and practise some inferrential skills.