The off and on rain and spending time alone made the world seem strange and empty. As I was driving home in the dark at four in the morning I passed a bad car accident where an SUV had flipped over. The cops were just starting to arrive when I passed, my car crunching over some plastic debris scattered over the highway. I felt concerned that I didn’t feel anything beyond curiosity. Maybe that’s not so unusual.
I stopped by Whataburger to get something to eat and tried to read some more ‘Rules of Attraction’. I was a little distracted by my thoughts and by watching the people that came in and the people that worked there, a miniaturized man with a large cell phone clipped to his waist, another old man with a fixed stare and bulldog underbite clamped under his gray moustache. Human beings are really weird.
If you’re feeling strange and alienated, that book can’t be helping. It’s frickin’ depressing. Not that it’s not worth reading anyways.
I know. I kinda like it so far.
Did I ever tell you about the time I was at the Jack in the Box by campus and there was a guy in there with a fake nose on? Like as if he didn’t have a real one under there, you know? It freaked me out. And at the same Jack in the Box, I saw an oldish guy with one of his testicles hanging out of his track shorts and he gave me a weird look like it was on purpose. I guess it goes to show, fast food restaurants can be pretty depressing too.