I Don't Know Where I Am

There are so many situations where things are very much not what they seem to be by outward appearances. Looking at it with no further context, it basically looks like standard fanfare. Then someone explains that there is more to it and casts a completely different light on ths situation. I remember once when I was in Hollywood, I went to a bar by myself. This was a pretty standard bar and the theme was that it played a certain type of music. It seemed pretty typical and this was always the case when I was there with friends. A guy who I knew randomly from being around Hollywood in general advised me that I should always go to that particular bar w/ a girl and that I would never meet girls at that particualr bar. I was talking to a girl right at that moment when he showed up but apparently what I was experiencing right then was a very unrandom sample of what happens there. This is an intense paraphrasing of the conversation but it definitely made me think long and hard about what I think I am seeing when I look at a stiutation and whether it is a different place altogther to a person who has some "insider-info" about it.