The most frustrating thing was I couldn't just walk up and start off with a big ol', "HI! How's it goin'? Boy, s'been a while, huh?" I couldn't do that because of straight principle. I've been on the other side of that conversation. Usually on the bus oddly, must be a popular spot for people to get that ol courage to talk someone's ear off when they've never even met! Whenever I get hit with some irrelevant question out of the blue like, "Hi, remember me?" I'm always standing there dumbly with that 'not-really-but-thanks-for-playing' look slapped over my face. Then they go off on what they've been doing for the past however long and I'm still fishing for a name to set under this face I can't recall. Then it comes out... "-so what have you been doing?" Now, I have three choices... I could tell this person that I have been doing nothing with my life and am currently living on a couch. That's option one. Option two consists of looking the other person square in the eye and after a slight pause, saying, "Please go away, I don't know you and have no interest in talking to you." Yeah, it's harsh but fun to pull out now and again.
The third option is the funnest thing to do usually sheerly because its... well, its a lie. "Well, I manage the gross revenue for a high end law office downtown. Oh, yes, I remember a breech of promise case we filed two weeks ago. Netted us a healthy profit..." That or I could be a pimp from Oakland down for some function, or something ridiculous. Then two things happen after this. They buy it for some reason or they realize I don't want to talk to them so badly I'd make up a bull-s**t story like that!
Either way I couldn't talk to her because when I'm addressed so suddenly and without interest I just wish the bus would flip over or something as such so I can look them in the face and blame our bus flipping on their blabbing. I would feel awful if I brought that on another person. Plus I'd also feel like a d**k if she thought the same thing and something like a helecopter actually fell thruogh the ceiling onto the frozen foods section and she looks at me yelling, "Way to go!! Now no one can get a frozen pie because you couldn't shut up!"
~Kujo~
