People are nice but I have to take normal precautions. To get out of the house and get fresh air and stop from going stir crazy I often go for a drive and lots of times I simply drive through the local fast food joints and get a soda or maybe an order of fries so I can park in their parking lot and turn on the radio in my car and just relax.
Tonight. I was at a spot I go to a lot. A car pulls up parallel to me one space in-between us. He/she parks and leaves the engine running. I wasn’t too worried and I glanced over. The person looked a little goofy but then again most people do. Wouldn’t turn the engine off.
This was ten minutes ago so I was surfing here on my phone. I assumed the person was a normal person and didn’t pay attention and I kind of slouched down. He/she still had the motor running so I thought, hell it’s night, hardly anyone around, maybe this person ain’t legit and. I looked over and sure enough they were looking at me, and I don’t know how long.
I wasn’t physically worried (maybe a little) but I wondered at their intentions. IDK, maybe I made an awkward movement and they picked up on it and started gunning the engine. Hey, I live with the neighbors from hell and I work with other people like me and hell, just being in the world I know people do crazy, petty sh*t.
So I started to get mad, a little. And whatever it was started acting like a punk and IDK, maybe it was being kind of punk myself when I was younger, or my drug days or something but I just said “screw it” and if this person is going to play games and act the fool like I have to put up with most days than hell, I’ m going to too. Anyways, we’re both looking at each other and I just figured it was some girl and I was wondering what she wanted from me.
It ended with a little glaring and I realized from her eyes that I over reacted and she was in her own world and that it was not a big incident to worry over, she was just annoying but not dangerous but she was just on some trip maybe and since it’s a beautiful summer night out she might have been out maybe looking for a little drama or adventure.
But I didn’t want to be the object of her trip and WTF did she park one spot away from me in a nearly empty parking lot? I mean isn’t that a little weird? The reason for the story and why I got so worked up is that when I’m in my car parked I tend to slouch and not look around my surroundings and in this past two months I’ve had four cars pull up right next to me or drive slowly and I didn’t look or react but after they left, I thought, “What was that about?”
I mean like the title says, I’ve just got too complacent, too trusting. I just got to be alert and don’t let the messed up people around me.