My Seinfeld Year

by Fred Stoller

“I asked my sister why my parents like her better than me. She said it’s because she’s older and they’ve known her longer.”

I wasn’t feeling that social, though I was painfully alone at the time. I do things like that. I’ll moan to myself how isolated I am, go outside, see someone I know and then hide from them. It’s not always because this person is the most annoying. Sometimes, with some people, I just know what the conversation is going to be and I don’t have the strength to relive it in real life after experiencing it in my head: