Jun 02, 2011 15:51
Tell me if you think this is creepy, or just plain weird.
A few days ago, I was at work and this guy walked up to pay for some stuff. We had this conversation:
Me: Hi, how are you?
Guy: Fine.... I think I've seen you before.
Me: Oh, yeah?
Guy: Yeah.... like around Niagara Falls area? In a coffee shop, I think.
Me: Niagara Falls? When was this?
Guy: Maybe about a week ago?
Me: That's kinda funny... I went to the States with my family last week, and we did stop for a coffee right around the border. I don't remember which coffee shop, though.
Guy: Yeah, you did have some people with you, I think. A Tim Horton's?
Me: Oh! Yes, it was a Tim's! Hey, isn't that something? Why were you there?
Guy: Oh,we were heading to Niagara-on-the-Lake.
So there was some light chit-chat about Niagara-on-the-Lake and why I was going to the States, and then he paid for his stuff and that was that. It wasn't until later that I really thought about it and started to wonder just how weird that whole thing was.
I told Stephen this story, and we both agreed that it wasn't THAT weird that someone would notice me when I'm just out and about, because I look kind of distinct and people are ALWAYS staring at me for one reason or another (I haven't quite figured out why yet, but I know it's not my shaved head or my socks because it happens even when I'm wearing a hat and long pants). No, the weird thing is that this dude remembered me well enough to recognize me again a week later out of nowhere, when we weren't even in the same city, and that he felt the need to bring this to my attention. Like really, why would you want to creep someone out like that?
I'm probably over-thinking it, but just in case, I've got Street Jaime on Yellow Alert.
street jaime,
freak-outs,
dialogue,
adventures in demonland,
awkwardness