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Overview
Luvvie Ajayi is a Nigerian-born writer. She has been writing for years, and her book makes clear that she wants to do more than just recap television shows.
Ajayi has a lot of humorous and truthful things to say about racism, social media, and the US election. She’s also an early adopter of Facebook and Twitter, which have become major factors in presidential campaigns. Ajayi is aware of how race and gender are still big issues for people in America.
In the following passage, the author will give a brief description and analysis of various things that happen in modern America. He’ll explain what you can do to improve your understanding of certain phenomena and how they work. The points he makes are ones that everyone should understand because not knowing these details could lead you into trouble or cause confusion with people around you. For example, there are friends who act like Lannisters and those who act like frenemies; hashtags have many different uses but misusing them is very common; Hotmail accounts are outdated when compared to Gmail accounts so it’s best for everyone to migrate from one account to another if possible.
Big Idea #1: There are three kinds of dinner scrooges to beware of.
The author is not perfect, and she admits that. She also knows her own faults can sometimes cause problems.
For example, Ajayi is chronically late to just about anything you might invite her to. She’s also fallen flat on her face while sprinting for a plane. However, not all people are like that; there are dinner scrooges who should feel ashamed of their behavior and they’re the ones who come late to dinners. They can be divided into three categories: those who eat so much food at dinner that they want others to pay equally for it or those who take more food home with them than what they ate in the restaurant because someone else will have to pay for it later on!
The second person who ruins dinner is the person who won’t tip because they calculate their bill too carefully. They will often stress how much less food they ate than everyone else and be stingy with tips.
There’s also the person who will disappear early, leaving you to pay for dinner. If this happens once, it can be excused. But if it happens twice, then that person is a scrooge and should not be invited again.
Ajayi doesn’t like to pay for dinner. She’d rather have prix fixe menus with preset prices and cash instead of the current situation, where people throw down their credit cards after a mediocre meal that costs too much.
Big Idea #2: There are nine types of bad friends who can challenge us with their terrible behavior.
Socializing is not always easy. Some people can be very difficult to deal with, especially when they’re your dinner companions. There are also nine types of friends that can really test our patience.
There are four kinds of friends in the world: The Competitor, who’s always trying to outdo you and make your good news about them. The SOS Pal, who only gets in touch when they’re in trouble. Then there’s the Adventurer, who might get you arrested someday because they enjoy risk-taking so much. Finally, there’s the Good Friend, whom everyone needs at least one of in their life.
Number four is the Lannister, a friend you can’t trust. This person has stolen money or slept with another friend’s boyfriend/girlfriend. You wouldn’t leave them alone in your home, but you might grab lunch sometime.
The surface is your friend, but you don’t know much about them. The surface is so guarded that you don’t even know what they do for a living despite being friends for years!
