Weird day at work today. There were a lot of strange soldiers in the office building that I work as a janitor in for classes.
That’s not the weird part. My job today was emptying wastebaskets in offices and cubicles. It is the easiest job to do; it’s usually what the biker/ ex-con does all day but he broke his foot so I took over.
I stepped into an office of a soldier I know a little because I’ve seen him around for half a year. I was tired and when I’m tired I get a little loopy and stupid. The guy was talking to some woman and I said “hi” and started emptying the wastebasket, but the girl used the word “crazy” which makes me flinch. It wasn’t directed at me it had to do with their conversation. But I thought it had to do with me and it stopped me in my tracks for a seconds but I kept working. As I walked out I thought everything was cool. I’m a pretty nondescript type of person and they barely noticed me.
But as I left the office and turned the corner the guy was talking to the girl and I heard a few words and he said “trippin”. I immediately thought it was about me (trippin’ is a stoner term, usually associated with being on LSD, but people use it in everyday life to mean someone acting a little weird or behaving odd) I heard a few more sentences and I was about 85% sure that it wasn’t about me. But the paranoia came out a little and it took me several minutes to recover. It was no big deal. It wasn’t like Trump getting elected or the ending of the very first original Planet of the Apes. I was only shocked and surprised for a few minutes and then I moved on. It was just a coincidence.
well done you!!!