Adrienne and Reese are out of town for a week, leaving me to my own devices. My devices are apparently very very very boring. I have spent a lot of time sitting in my underwear eating cold cereal and watching TV.
Last night Adrienne’s sister Elaine was very kind and invited me over for dinner. She and her friends were very understanding in letting Old Lonely Guy (me) hang out with them and avoid going to my too-quiet house.
Tonight I decided to go to the bookstore because I actually caught myself watching Boston Public. Either Boston Public is slightly unrealistic, or my own high school experience was drastically lacking in spontaneous freestyle rapping about the works of Shakespeare (I have a hunch it was just my lame school).
I picked up a book while I was there. Jeffery Zeldman’s Designing With Web Standards, which I am sure is going to be great.
As I waited in the checkout line a middle aged goateed man in a Hawaiian shirt and shorts asked if I was the last person in line. I said I was and he stepped in line behind me. There was only one register open, and the couple at the register was, I believe, attempting to set the Guinness record for Indecisive and Slow Purchasing While Forcing Mindless Banter on The Cashier.
The guy behind me had enough and said, “Could you please call another cashier up here, I have a movie to be at in eight minutes!” Slow Couple finished before the second cashier arrived, so I turned to the guy and said, “I don’t have anywhere I have to be, why don’t you go ahead of me”. He said, ‘That is very kind of you, thank you very much”.
He made his purchase and left. As I bought my book one cashier turned to the other and said excitedly, “Do you know who that was?! That was Orson Scott Card!” I am curious how Mr. Card is going to reward me for my generosity. It seems likely that he will mail me a check for an obscene amount of money.
Now, since it is 10:30pm and I just realized I haven’t eaten any dinner, I think I will go pour myself another bowl of Cap’n Crunch.