New social situations often seem deceptively at first?

"You know," said Arthur thoughtfully, "all this explains a lot of things. All my life I've had this strange unaccountable feeling that something was going on in the world, something big, even sinister, and no one would tell me what it was."

"No," said the old man, "that's just perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the Universe has that."

~The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - by Douglas Adams

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