Beach Party Chill

Logged on tonight and decided to spend some time improving my living quarters. Strange how I feel the urge to aesthetically enhance a room that I’m likely the only one to visit, but anyway I now have some very nice plants and a sofa that I’m tickled pink about. After upgrading the room it was time to explore again. After the madness of the dating rooms I thought I was going to play it safe by “Chilin” in the beach room this time. I entered a pretty large room (by Habbo standards) with a clear beach theme that included a swimming area, beach chairs, sand, umbrellas, and palm trees. I sat down in one of the chars outlining the exterior of the room and offered a “how goes it on the beach” to two girl avatars (both in bikini tops, one white with short blonde hair, the other black with longer black hair) sitting caddie-corner to me. Initially the white girl avatar responded hello, and we engaged in the typical pleasantries (how are you etc.). As has become par for the course, one early question posed to me inquired about my age. Also par for the course was a somewhat shocked response to my answer of twenty-seven. It was at this point that that the other girl in close proximity (black girl avatar) chimed in, “JGalt aren’t you a little old to be here?”. Although I have begun to think she is probably correct, I took the opportunity to ask, “Is there an age limit for Habbo?” She responded with an emphatic “yes” and upon further questioning decided that it was eighteen or maybe nineteen (but these ages were “getting close” to being too old). When I asked her about why such an age limit was necessary, she more or less explained that I was probably wanting to get a girlfriend and that some creepy twenty-seven year old dude shouldn’t be hitting on thirteen year old girls. This of course prompted me to ask if the only use for Habbo was sexual, which also generated an affirmative response. When asked why this was so she answered with question, “You tell me”. Not being able to come up with an answer on the spot I redirected with “do you use Habbo for sexual purposes” and she responded no. When asked what she enjoyed using Habbo for she explained that she doesn’t like Habbo at. She claimed that she has gotten really stressed out by the whole thing (apparently suffering from a “hack” in which all of her “furni” was stolen), but in the end declared “its just addictive”. As I was finding out that she was allegedly a seventeen-year-old girl from Pennsylvania another “girl” avatar approached us. This girl was very similar in appearance to the original white girl avatar (who incidentally disappeared after I began talking with the other) only with a different colored top. She walked directly in front of the girl to whom I was speaking and asked if she would move so that she and her boy friend could sit there. The girl to I was speaking replied that she would not move and that the new girl needed to move out of the way. This started a serious argument that continued even after I moved my character to allow for two nearby seats to become available. The argument was convoluted to say the least with my interviewee even bringing me into the argument with comments to the effect of “This guy is 27 and we’ve been having a conversation just fine. Why am I, at 17, more mature than you at 20 (the other girls age had been drawn out already)…” Interrupting something to the effect of “your blocking my sun!!!!” I said that old men need to go to bed early and that I needed to get going. I thanked my interviewee for talking and left.