tales from an ordinary world

2001-12-29

The supermarket's full of unhappy people this afternoon. Probably thanks to the afternoon heat, short tempers abound - mothers scolding restless children, a shopper argues over whose turn it is at the deli (something about the ticket machine not working). People look at you suspiciously when you start unloading your shopping onto the end of the rubber runway, as if you're about to steal their stuff (like I care !). But I'm in a good mood, I've got better at not letting the little things get me down...most of the time, anyway...and I just bought a Ramones CD, so I'm looking forward to going home to 3-chord heaven.

While I waited for my connecting tram at Caulfield Park, the geese were wandering about with their children. Geese totally rock. I miss wandering up to visit the geese that hung around the lake out the back of Monash Uni, usually when I was feeling stressed it was a good place to go. It was also where one of my girlfriends and I used to go and sit for a while, especially before we were "going out". I remember the time I'd finally worked up the courage up to ask her out (as it were), and while I stared into the lake, hoping it'd swallow me whole now that I'd finally made the mistake of speaking my mind, she replied "well...actually...I'd given up waiting for you to ask." The lake stared back. It was up to me to convince her now, as if I was trying to sell her a used car, or something. I just scraped through, it seemed. Life went on. After she left me, I'd go back and watch the geese by myself, trying to make sense of it all.