Been a bit
no idea why I decided to post now but it feels like time for an update
It’s been a while since I’ve written in here and this morning I had an early interaction with a character who triggered this post. I had to run some errands before the work day started which put me at the gas station before 7:00am. After fueling up I wandered in to the store to get a delicious morning diet poison. I pulled up short as a dude was filling his cupped hands with one of the colorful Mountain Dew variants and immediately drinking it down. Not sure what I was witnessing I watched three complete handfuls go down his gullet before my patience began to thin.
I grabbed my cup in an effort to at least call a brief time out so I could fill up and he could take a much needed breath but he just turned and gave me the stink eye as he registered my presence and went back to another leaky hand-cup-fulls. It was at that point when I offered to buy him one of the baby pool sized drinks I wanted to make for myself but he turned again and just stared with nothing behind his eyes.
For some further background this fella was not giving strong homeless vibes. His clothes were clean save the red stains down the front of his tshirt due to an unorthodox beverage consumption method. His jeans appeared to be of the newer variety but I am no fashion judge. And his shoes although spattered in red sugar water looked to be pricey. Dude was an enigma.
I think he got his fill because he retired to the prep area and attempted to clean up with a mature trees worth of napkins. I stopped watching that process because I had my own compulsions to deal with and by the time I added my lid and straw he was exiting the establishment. When I went up to pay I thought about telling the woman working the counter what just happened but she is a bit of a kook herself and I figured why ruin her morning over something that’s already done.
Dude made me really ponder my life. I had a thousand possible back stories running through my brain but they all boiled down to being glad it wasn’t me. The human brain is a special kind of something and I worry for the time when springs eventually fly out of my skull.
In other news The girlfriend (yup, I’m there) continues to be a positive thing in my life. We went to a wedding last weekend and had a great time. It turns out that the relationship related things I’d been avoiding for the last five years were a part of my life I was missing. The world without some one else in it is easy but really boring. I needed to invite a little human chaos into my life to spice things up and bring a little more purpose to my existence.
