Little snippets

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Little snipets

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[waterandsilk]

I started walking down one of the tunnel aisles and was looking at some rare food item I was excited about. I started to wander into the most shaded and dark part of the tunnel when I saw you and had a surprised "what are you doing here!?" reaction, whereupon I jumped on you in greeting and wrapped my legs around you. Then I thought smugly about how nice it is to have a friend that I always greeted in that way, because apparently I do. You said "you have to see my friend" and led me through the tunnel into the meat section which was full of seafood to a bench where two big black guys were sitting. Except that even though they looked like two big black guys I knew that they were your white guy (singular) friend from one of your ventures. We went to sat down and ended up in the dark, back private room of a music bar. There was a one way mirror window where you could see people walking by in the grocery meat section but they couldn't see you. Then my ankle started hurting bitterly while we were talking, and I had to take off my shoe. You and your friend were talking and then Tony (stepdad) appeared in the doorway and asked why wasn't I done with my shopping yet and they needed to go. I felt bad that I was holding them up, and I said "look Ben is home!". He sat down and started talking to you both the way he does when he talks to my friends about computers, only you were talking about your friend's travels and how he was writing a book. He said writing a book was really slow for him and I thought to myself that so far it hasn't been that hard to motivate myself to work on my book, and that I hoped no one asked me about it because I hate to talk about it. I sat there dreading Tony or someone else mentioning that I was a writer, too. Then your friend looked over at Rayna (who was in the room as though she had been the entire time) and said something to me that I don't remember. Rayna started telling another guy in the room about a story and making sign language to him so he would understand it. Tony reprimanded me again about taking so long picking out groceries, and I started to get worried that my mom had walked by the little music room without seeing us and thought we disappeared. The guy in the music room next door poked his head in and said something and then went back to their room. We knew they were practicing a song. Then we were looking at a black and white image of some men standing around in the grocery aisles with musical instruments taken a long time ago, it was as though it were a movie or just a photo projected on the wall, but it wasn't that defined. I asked "is that Martin Sheen" and Tony said it probably was. Then the intro to a cheesy Saturday Night Live type spinoff show "came on" (there was no television though) and we were all disappointed and said "oh, it's THAT guy". He had heavily arched eyebrows.

Then I was looking at ebay stuff because you had been selling something with your friend on there and were showing it to us, and I saw that Kelly Gallamore was selling a plastic model horse covered in jewels that she got in Japan. I thought about buying it for Rayna for Christmas because she is into horses now but then I saw that it was $36 dollars and that all the jewels were Mardi Gras beads glued all over the horse. I decided to just make one.

Then I think I woke up. Now I'm going back to bed.

[waterandsilk]

I just reread this and I was really asleep when I wrote it, I don't remember most of it now. I'd even forgotten that I got online to write it until I noticed the browser window open on my computer a moment ago.