Any Which Way to Smile

Something everyone should know about me -- I'm full of quirks. Even at work, I have my quirks... Like ketchup. I always get ketchup somewhere strange, and don't find it until after the shift is over-- after I've changed out of costume. Today, it was in my pocket. I don't remember handling ketchup at all today.

So tonight, I drove home. I parked in my driveway and saw a cat. Still in my usual frilly, colorful-pin-striped costume/dress. I had a hand in my pocket-- fondling dried ketchup. I bent down to pet the cat, it deserved it for being so white and beautiful. There was a kid, with some kind of music device crammed in his ears, walking down the street... Maybe 10 feet from me. He seemed observant, kept looking around and back up and down the street. Like someone was folowing him. He looked at me.

So I bent down to pet the cat, and she was timid. She was nice. And so, I got bored with the cat, decide to go in. I walk around the car, around the bushes, towards the front door of my house. The kid runs up through the grass, all crazy-like, to my front door, looks around, looks at me, looks at me like I'm not supposed to be there. I look at him like he's crazy. Then he talks all crazy-like.

The kid says "Whoah! You freaked me out! I've been seeing things lately... I saw you there, and then you were gone... You freaked me out! I thought you were one of my people."

I say "This is my house." He laughs all crazy-like. Walks back across the grass. Walks down the road again. I just stand there, all freaked out. I wondered if maybe I was just seeing things. It was just that insane of a moment.

And so now, I'm eating apples and thinking about Christian's crazy lizard-face. And Anthony in a prom dress. I work again tomorrow. Ugh. I work a lot this week. Money is good.

And also... Happy Halloween!


Update: I've forgotten to mention that, most importantly today... Bette Midler called my house to seriously urge that I vote Democratic. I found humor in this.

posted by Tim @ 9:54 PM