Awkward Part II

Just so Eyun doesn't feel alone in awkward interaction on a Friday night, I'll add on to this. I ventured out to a party with relative strangers last night. I'm getting acquainted with the group that I was meeting up with, when a completely random stranger comes up and begins a conversation with us. I have to give the guy credit for trying but his opening line was "Can I ask you a question?" He then proceeds to tell us his friend's fiancee wants him to throw out all his pictures of ex-girlfriends... and what our opinions are of this... should he do it, not do it etc. However, he tries to drag this out for at least twenty minutes, not picking up on our social cues that we are done with that particular discussion. He even gets offended when one member of the group asks "is this really a friend or is it you?" He turns to me and says "Why is she attacking me?" I retort "She's not... but you really are asking the wrong people about this because we don't really have a need to keep pictures of ex's." Questioning then ensues about whether we really are free of ANY ex-boyfriend pictures. I'm getting the third degree from a guy wearing white socks with black dress shoes. We try in vain to start up other conversations as politely as possible, but he continues to stare at us intently and interrupt in a lame attempt to steer us back to the photo conversation. The awkwardness was piled on when another fellow introduces himself, sits down, stares at us but doesn't say a word. I felt like I had entered the social awkwardness party of the year. The guy eventually leaves only to reappear ten minutes later with yet another "question" for us. At that point we decided that the best way to deal with the situation was to just leave the party.