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Onstage games over the two nights included cardioke, video darts, and no- finally figured it out and I said it: You want me to leave? hands pizza-eating, among many others, I said this because I did have small evidences. The day before they had gotten a little meaner, one of while those not so keen on the limelight en- I them especially, the bigger one, the one who had earlier been my champion. But I didn’t understand. I joyed a game of table tennis, table football had been having such a nice time. I was bewildered. Why did they suddenly not love me? and a free drink or two. And then the next morning it happened again. The big one had a mean look on his face. The other fig- ured she didn’t need to have an ugly look on her face because the big one was taking care of it, so she For details of more late night revelry, go to could just stand to the side and look on, bemused. But I was so stupid, I still didn’t understand. I looked at www.puma.com/social the littler one as if to say, Why is he acting this way? It finally occurred to me: You want me to leave? Of course he wants me to leave! You do? I said. They’d been wanting me to leave for days already! Didn’t I realise? What was I thinking, to be taking over in there like this, hanging around all day? Anyone else would have had the courtesy to clear out days before.