Random Encounters and Evil Strangers
My ass is dog tired and I now walk with a gentle list in my gait after the snow shoveling and subsequent destroying of delicate documents.
My "list" actually looks like a female trying to do a Fred Sanford imitation while attempting a sexy dance.
And then the last hours at work today were trying on my mind as I was sweaty/cold from too many layers, shrugging off said layers to try to cool off and trying to communicate nicely while thinking of a cold beer resting quietly in the right bottom corner of the fridge while hurdling tasks that I find compensable and admirable but mundane after many years of following my chosen field.
So I get through a long week, try not to look into a mirror too closely anymore with glasses on (I'm very attractive to myself if I don't wear glasses and I like to keep it that way) and drive off to my little hole in the world.
My Fortress. My Tara.
Well, it could be my Tara but the goddamned septic tank is...
VOICE: Leave that alone, babe, get to the point...
K, so I need gas. Pay at the pump, stick the nozzle in and then go into the store to get sundry items, even though the sign says not to.
I'm uncertain why. Maybe THEY think someone will steal my gas.
Won't happen.
Maybe it's a security concern, an explosion may occur.
Well, if that's it, I'd rather be in the store, as far away from the explosion as necessary.
Anywho,
I go in while my gas is pumping. DAMN THE MAN.
I don't get 2 feet in the store before some fucker who is obviously chatting it up with the cashier says, as he looks at the cashier, "Hey, I'm so good I can tell you HER name."
I pay no attention. I could care less about weird fucks out here. It's Friday, man, I need gas, smokes and the fastest way home.
He says " That's Denise"
Ok, you have my attention.
He then looks around, gazes at the ceiling like a prophet then says "That's Denise ____ (gives my last name and pronounces it correctly).
NOW YOU REALLY HAVE MY ATTENTION BECAUSE IF YOU CAN SAY MY LAST NAME...I KNOW YOU.
This prick then goes on and states things about a bar and maybe I don't recognize him and he's hurt and I am reaching deeply the dark recesses of my mind for intel since I don't go to bars much but when I have, it's been memorable, check the 12 o'clock news.
He continues to toss names and I begin to get quirky but uninterested, random weirdness, time to jaunt.
He says" but don't you recall that dark evening at the bar and the satin sheets?"
I HAD HIM THERE.
I have NEVER been on satin sheets. Even in my oddest times.
I called him on it. And he folded.
Some dude from school. I had to look him up (in an old yearbook once I arrived home) to recall the face as I remembered it.
The thing is?
Why in Hell did he recall ME?
He wasn't one of my guys. And I mean one of my buddies. I ran with dudes back in the day....and as another dude or sister..not as a lay.
It's great to run into old comrades but why fuck with me?
Why all the mystery?
I should have clocked his nuts but I gave him a hug.
I'm an idiot like that.
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