Brotherhood
typed for your pleasure on 25 January 2007, at 6.37 pmSdtrk: ‘As it is when it was’ by New order
On my way to work this morning, I had to make a stop at a service station — most people have coffee to get them going, whereas I’d much rather have a Dr pepper. I pulled in, left the warmth of my car for the 15ºF weather, and walked briskly inside. After paying for a 20oz bottle of said beverage, not five seconds after stepping back out, I heard ‘hey mon, you got any spare change on you?’ yelled in my direction. I glanced up, and spotted some individual standing at the bus stop gesturing at me lazily. As I was in a hurry to get going; plus human interaction in near-freezing conditions with some spurious person I didn’t know is fifty times worse than in any other situation, I shook my head and gave a cursory shrug in response, before I scrambled back into my car and locked the door.
As I was pulling off the premises, I had to peer left, in order to look for a break in the oncoming traffic, and the tosser was standing in my line of sight about ten feet away. He held his joint aloft — at least, I assumed it was a joint, by the way he was holding it — with a big smile, as if to say ‘hey mon, it’s all good,’ but all that really served to do was make me feel more alienated
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January 25th, 2007 at 8.58 pm
Alienation seems to be a common them we have going for us, isn’t it?
Alien Nation was a movie from the eighties, I think. Then a TV show!
January 26th, 2007 at 9.14 am
“…plus human interaction in near-freezing conditions with some spurious person I didn’t know is fifty times worse than in any other situation”
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LOL! i second that! 🙂
January 27th, 2007 at 2.38 pm
T-money –
Heh; we go with what we know. 🙂
Camilla –
You should’ve seen me; I couldn’t get into my car fast enough. :-\