Smoke Jumper
"So what do you do?"
"I'm a janitor"
"Oh yeah, I'm a teacher."
"Obviously you didn't catch the fact that I don't care about what you do. Out of curiosity what do you teach?"
"English"
"Do you read?"
"I'm a teacher"
"That doesn't mean shit. What do you read?"
"Well my favorite is The Awakening"
"A little dramatic don't you think?"
Going to Fells in some Little Mexico town house and being around random strange people for hours was not high on my list for the evening. Worse than that was this twit of a woman who would not leave me alone. I think she used the word "megaopus" to define a Hesse book and then rambled on about how she lived in Japan or Somalia or Sweden. The bottom line was that her benality and inability to read my lack of desire to pay attention to her made her more and more annoying. She followed me outside. "Go away!" I eventually I told her as she wanted to talk about writers in the Atlantic or New Yorker. "Lord lady - get a life."
I don't know what it was that made me so salty about this poor girl but it wasn't the first time this weekend. A friend's roommate came out and took some sort of weird liking to me after she herself was inebriated. She touched the under side of my arm and as usual I pulled away. "I don't like to be touched.", I said with complete sincerity. For some reason this enticed her more and she wouldn't leave me alone for another 30 minutes. I moved seats and so did she. I went to the juke box "Can you play Dave?" To which I laughed out loud and insisted on telling her life story which must have been full of bong hits, colored condoms, beer guzzling and endless games of quarters on a sticky counter in some place called Wyndahm Hall.
I found people not necessarily appalling as much as I doubted where I fit in this weekend. I didn't see any common bond with them. Their slovenly actions followed up by insincere boorish conversation based around nothing that interested me caused me to go into cold mode. I like when I get cold. Things become hilarious to me and I have no need for anyone's company that I don't know. It's not being a snob as much as it is weeding out all the bullshit.
