RE: Awkward Moments anyone?
August 24, 2016 at 11:53 am
(This post was last modified: August 24, 2016 at 11:53 am by The Grand Nudger.)
I've told this story on the boards before......but:
When I first moved to KY I spent alot of time in the Lex Public Library. Homeless people used it to keep warm. I was totally -not- minding my own business, peering over a homeless mans shoulder at one of the nternet kiosks...and I saw him on the shamepages, jotting down a phone number that corresponded to an image on the screen of a slightly pudgy, middle aged women in a red teddy who was just looking for love. Really bad quality photo...where the edges are fuzzy and everything has a slight red glow (I can only assume...from the satin on the teddy). He pocketed the dewey decimal slip with her number on it and walked off.
I knew, then and there, that he would go down to the shelter, take a shower, grab some threads from the goodwill..... walk to the nearest payphone, and give her a call.
I felt like an intruder on something I had never considered...but must be happening all around me.
When I first moved to KY I spent alot of time in the Lex Public Library. Homeless people used it to keep warm. I was totally -not- minding my own business, peering over a homeless mans shoulder at one of the nternet kiosks...and I saw him on the shamepages, jotting down a phone number that corresponded to an image on the screen of a slightly pudgy, middle aged women in a red teddy who was just looking for love. Really bad quality photo...where the edges are fuzzy and everything has a slight red glow (I can only assume...from the satin on the teddy). He pocketed the dewey decimal slip with her number on it and walked off.
I knew, then and there, that he would go down to the shelter, take a shower, grab some threads from the goodwill..... walk to the nearest payphone, and give her a call.
I felt like an intruder on something I had never considered...but must be happening all around me.
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