paying the piper
September 5th, 2006
Perhaps as a kind of revenge on world’s behalf I spent the whole day feeling slightly out of sorts and all alone with my incredibly petty middle-class issues. Getting on the train and watching the way people look at me. Squeezing up the back of the cafe for lunch, so I don’t draw any more attention – it’s bad enough that I’m not flipping through a fashion mag or discussing my home reno with my friends, like all the other patrons. Later in the afternoon, finding myself ordering a latte instead of long macchiato and then fumbling with my $50 note ’cause I didn’t have any other change by this point in the day, sheepishly handing it to the guy behind the counter saying “sorry, sorry, sorry…”
Somehow, though, I made it home.
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September 6th, 2006 at 10:47
yesterday i found myself angry at constantly needing to be polite to strangers. an old guy on a bike stopped to watch me take photos at an abandoned plot of land in the middle of richmond. i ignored his approach, pretending i couldn’t hear him yelling at me until finally he tapped me on the shoulder. he demanded to know what i was doing. i just snapped. what business is it of anyone’s if i want to take a goddamn photo from the sidewalk of a fence and plants in an abandoned plot of land? and why should i damn well be polite about it?
so i wasn’t. it was rather liberating.
perhaps i should have attacked him for not wearing a helmet.
September 7th, 2006 at 19:26
right back at both of yous
hmmm seems we’reall a little battle fatigued, dare I prescribe an afternoon of pool, beer and idle banter?
September 7th, 2006 at 19:27
hmmm intersesting avatar I have sums me up quite well at the moment actually!
September 7th, 2006 at 19:55
such an afternoon sounds good. i gotta work late tomorrow night, too, so i reckon i’ll need it after that…