to our left , two american males tried to impress two new zealand females with tales of their wild and wacky adventures , in which they were like , hey , like totally smashed on cuervo , man , in mexico ; and behind them , another american , who may have reached the age of twenty , impressed her pale friend by publicly denigrating the waitress , who had kept her waiting for all of two minutes ; and all around us , people who did not smoke pretended to , because they were being crazy in saigon , laying the bedrock for facebook fantasies to impress their more staid friends back home .