The World Ends...
What is this? ...is this the second post from me in ONE DAY!? Holy smokes, am I getting to LIKE Livejournal? The world surely must be ending... ;)
Well, the universe is strangely awesome sometimes. So remember how mopey I was earlier? All, "grr! Emotions I hate you! And I hate the emotion of hating you!" etc.? Right after I wrote that I went to my weekly meditation class and you'll never guess what the focus was for today... yes, emotions. Recognizing them, recognizing that they are fleeting and temporary, and most importantly of all, that we are not our emotions. Not exactly earth-shattering I know, but it was a good session nonetheless and I'm hopeful about using it to move on.
But really what I wanted to post about is a funny incident that just happened. At least, I was amused.
Scene: Rite-Aid, pharmacy counter-line.
I'm standing behind a teenage girl, while her teenage boyfriend (friend? brother? I got the gf vibe but I could have been wrong) wanders around the near area, which happens to include pregnancy tests and condoms (thanks for making us pick those out right in front of all the pharmacists and people waiting in line, Rite-Aid..." The guy is being mildly amusing just by being dumb and making inane comments about things. Then, a random older man (didn't really look at him so not sure how old/young) wanders up to the condom section. He speaks up and says: "Can any of you tell me whether this works? I know it's kind of a personal question, but do you like the Trojan vibrating ring condoms?" Needless to say there was a brief pause of "Omg, did he really just ask that?" I'm standing there pretending not to exist because I do not like even acknowledging that I have ever bought condoms to strangers.
This gets better. The teenage boy immediately walks over and in a super friendly voice says: "My boyfriend uses that and it's really great. I really like it," what follows is a conversation involving the teenager trying to convince the dude that he is serious, his girlfriend protesting that he is joking, and the man seeming extremely unfazed and protesting that he can tell the guy is lying (by using basically every lie-detection trick that has ever been mentioned in a movie or television"
Frankly it made me very giggly, not really because of anyone else (I think the man may have had a mental issue, just from the way he was talking) but because of my own thoughts which were mostly just about how surreal the whole thing felt. Of course I'd also just taken my medicine which doesn't help of course.
Well, the universe is strangely awesome sometimes. So remember how mopey I was earlier? All, "grr! Emotions I hate you! And I hate the emotion of hating you!" etc.? Right after I wrote that I went to my weekly meditation class and you'll never guess what the focus was for today... yes, emotions. Recognizing them, recognizing that they are fleeting and temporary, and most importantly of all, that we are not our emotions. Not exactly earth-shattering I know, but it was a good session nonetheless and I'm hopeful about using it to move on.
But really what I wanted to post about is a funny incident that just happened. At least, I was amused.
Scene: Rite-Aid, pharmacy counter-line.
I'm standing behind a teenage girl, while her teenage boyfriend (friend? brother? I got the gf vibe but I could have been wrong) wanders around the near area, which happens to include pregnancy tests and condoms (thanks for making us pick those out right in front of all the pharmacists and people waiting in line, Rite-Aid..." The guy is being mildly amusing just by being dumb and making inane comments about things. Then, a random older man (didn't really look at him so not sure how old/young) wanders up to the condom section. He speaks up and says: "Can any of you tell me whether this works? I know it's kind of a personal question, but do you like the Trojan vibrating ring condoms?" Needless to say there was a brief pause of "Omg, did he really just ask that?" I'm standing there pretending not to exist because I do not like even acknowledging that I have ever bought condoms to strangers.
This gets better. The teenage boy immediately walks over and in a super friendly voice says: "My boyfriend uses that and it's really great. I really like it," what follows is a conversation involving the teenager trying to convince the dude that he is serious, his girlfriend protesting that he is joking, and the man seeming extremely unfazed and protesting that he can tell the guy is lying (by using basically every lie-detection trick that has ever been mentioned in a movie or television"
Frankly it made me very giggly, not really because of anyone else (I think the man may have had a mental issue, just from the way he was talking) but because of my own thoughts which were mostly just about how surreal the whole thing felt. Of course I'd also just taken my medicine which doesn't help of course.