Things are weird lately. Like, I've woken up in some kind of weirdo reality that's not mine. I was joking on facebook with a friend about green jello yesterday and today I was behind a woman who was buying (no lie) 30-40 boxes of the stuff. Not all green mind you but an assortment of colors.
She must have noticed my puzzled/surprised stare at the mountain of jello because she started talking to me.
"It's for cookies."
"Oh..." What could I say?
"I'm making like 40 dozen for a friend." She seems extremely excited about this.
"Ahh... I don't bake... I usually just... eat." (looking around for something sane to say)
"I write cookbooks!"
"Wow! Well, I guess you'd be the person to do that!" Jesus could I sound any stupid-er?
And seriously folks, this was just a simple interaction with another human being. She was a woman I'd met in the elevator a few days before. She lives in my building... imagine if I was trying to get to know her. Every meeting we've had has gone like this - awkward and bizarre.
I can't blame it all on lack of sleep. I don't think it would have made much of difference! I just seem to hit certain people when I'm off. But, everyone has "off" days right??
But now I have a serious desire to have a normal conversation with this person (even tho I am not particularly interested in becoming friends) JUST TO PROVE I CAN!
I think I'm gonna start my fucking period.
Maybe we should become friends, maybe she'd bake me some jello cookies.
1 comments:
Jello cookies? I'm curious... why don't you ask her for the recipe?
Seriously, I know where you're coming from; normal interactions with people are difficult for me. When working, conversation is very direct and goal oriented. Unless I know someone fairly well, my conversations are limited to trivialities.
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