Story Time
I went to pick up Chinese food. It was before the surgery so at the end of the day, after a drive, I get sore and stiff ... "You're Thor? I'm so thor I can't even pith" ... back to the story. Getting the food was gonna require a brief period of standing and waiting for my knees to acclimate to standing and walking, It was dark and it was starting to rain as I stood there. About 60' away, seated on a bench was this tattooed, homeless reject babbling to himself. I've learned to ignore the homeless in Boston but this was here in God's Country, a kinder, gentler place.
I was going to have the familiar agony of walking on cold stiff knees to get the food and this mope was in the other direction talking to himself in the beginning of what promised to be fat rain. Anyway I grabbed the rain coat from the truck and walked over to the loon with my rain coat in my outstretched hand. He was startled and moved back, clearly threatened. I didn't blame him. I'm a horror show appearing on a rainy night. I tell him it's a rain coat and ask if he wants it.
The guy relaxes and says, "Naw Man" and gestures to the building behind him, "I live right there, but that's cool as sh!t". I turn to walk away because I was done. I didn't want to give away my rain coat to begin with but I just couldn't walk away from his cold, crazy, wet @ss on my way to get food.
He was saying something but I had my own @ss aches and didn't care. I was there for food to start with and now I was back on track. So Avec Chez gets up and says, "Wait, I want to shake your hand". I kept moving away and said, "I don't want to shake your hand", happy that I still had my rain coat but resentful of the wasted steps I took in the opposite direction of the food. The guy took offense and yells out, "That ain't right!" There was other talk out of him but I went and got the food. When I returned, he was still there. As I drove away, he either shot me the bird or gave me a thumbs up. I couldn't make out which.
Even when I try do the right thing, I like to being an @sshole about it.
Okay, the girl is up and the coffee is on.
