posted on April 16, 2003 @ 5:12 pm
goodness, listen to this. it's so bizarre. this afternoon at one, i was sitting in front of this building waiting for my grammar partner to arrive (which he didn't). a guy came up and sat next to me and just started talking. given that no one really does that, i talked back. then layla comes up and covers my eyes, "guess who," in this really creepy voice that was still obviously her. anyway, so she stood there for a while, and the three of us talked, wherein he (i later found out his name is james) said that he was a bum from the drag (a stretch of guadelupe at the edge of campus with stores like the co-op, b&n, tower records, etc.). he said he was through bumming for the day and just wanted to walk around campus. layla left after a bit because she was late to class and had to pee (had to add that; she was whining about it), and james and i stayed there talking. he started talking about girls and mentioned that i was attractive, and all i could do was laugh nervously. then some random skinny chick passed by, and he said, "you're hotter than her. she looks like she starves herself." by this point i'm clearly feeling uncomfortable, partially because he smells a little funny (not too bad, though, just body odor), he's a little dirty, he's just some random stranger, he's a bum (by itself it doesn't matter, but since i'm listing things i'll put it), and he's talking about how beautiful my eyes are. i mean, i don't know, i guess i'm supposed to be flattered by all this, but i mean, he just came up to me like 20 minutes prior. i don't think it's very normal to walk up to someone, talk to them a while, and then tell them you like them. i don't know, i'm just not used to it, and i don't particularly agree as i'm sure you're aware. ;)
anywho, so yeah, he mentioned coming to my apartment and taking a shower, but i didn't really give a definite answer to it. we went to one of the libraries on campus, and he got the information guy to look up books on forensics (i told him i used to want to do that, and he said he was interested in it as well). so we find one called death, decay and reconstruction (we were both like, "ooh! that one!" heh). after thumbing through some books and looking at the pictures, i begin to feel a little uneasy and want to leave. i told him i needed to go, and he asked again about the shower. i said he could, so he followed me to my car and i took him home. when we got there, he introduced himself to tima (that's when i found out his name; he hadn't even asked mine so i wasn't going to ask his), and jennifer was thoroughly confused as to who was in our home. i closed her door and whispered he was a bum i met, and she made this face as to convey, what the hell are you doing?! i gave him a washcloth and towel and left him in my bathroom. once again, jennifer says, "i can't take you anywhere!" i gave him this button-up black dress shirt i got from my papaw, and he started counting the change he had.
sitting in my old recliner frayed by many cats in the past and present, sipping water out of my plastic cup and counting the minutes until i could leave and go to work to make $9.00 an hour, i felt so awkward. this man�hardly a man, only 25�has $25 and some change to his name, and i'm complaining about having only a few hundred. rightfully so considering i owe capital one $1500, but nonetheless. it was the climax of my time with him, so i left early for work just so i could get away. the comfort i live in can be so uncomfortable at times.
he had mentioned calling me later because he was going to get some weed, but when i dropped him off he didn't ask for my number. maybe he felt the weirdness i was surely giving off. i don't know. and he was talking about us helping him find a job and living with us for a while. i couldn't blatantly say, "um..no?" hopefully the silence conveyed that.
like cat said, he was probably just trying to get a shower. at least cat rated my story a B.
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