Yesterday was my last day of work
I finished the second Twilight book in a day and a half (once again) and I'm very eager to start reading the third! Phillis, one of old boss ladies I work with, was astonished that I had finished both books so quickly -- and so was everyone else apparently. There's a preview of the next book in every Twilight book and I had started reading that for lack of things to read and this very pretty black girl (who is kind of boyish looking and seems to be in her mid 20s) asked me how long it took me to read the book. I told her and she laughed and was like, "Dang, man. That would have taken me like ten days. Ten years." She then proceeded to ask me if I SKIPPED GRADES ROFL. Now it was my turn to laugh. Paris, that black kid I talked about in a previous entry, was also surprised at how fast I had read the book. I decided not to tell any of them that there is a vast majority of people that can finish lengthy books in a day or less. It's a rare day when someone hints at the fact that I, Vanessa Barajas, might, somehow, be intelligent and I wasn't about to let it end too quickly.
When I was reading that horrible book Midnight for Charlie Bone there was this black guy with glasses leaning against the table I was sitting next to. He leaned over to me and said, "I bet you you're reading fiction, right?" I confirmed this and he chuckled and said, "I'm the only one that reads nonfiction these days!" I smiled politely and went back to reading my terrible book.
He interrupted me again though, mentioning something about why he couldn't read fiction. I'm not sure how the conversation went exactly but at some point he was telling me that watching TV or movies wasn't fun for him anymore. I asked why that was and he said something like, "Well, you seen Black Hawk Down before?" "Yes." "You know how they be havin' men take out the pin of a grenade with their teeth?" I nodded, he proceeded, "They aint no way they could have done that! I was in the military and if they were to do somethin' stupid like that they woulda ripped out all their teeth." He kept going. "You know how they throw them grenades like they be a baseball or somethin'? Those grenades be weighing five or six pounds do you think you could throw something that heavy like that? Nope. I watched a war movie once where they had a certain canon and I was thinkin to myself, 'well wait a minute that aint even be invented yet in that time!' "
He went on telling me things like this for a good ten minutes. Something about how you wouldn't want a bullet to go through a person, you would want it to stay in their body so it would do more damage or something? LOL, y'know, small talk.