I must still look young enough to pass for jail bait when I wear my hair in braids, haha. I got hit on by 2 teenage boys while working drive-thru tonight. I would say they were 16-17 years old. Haha. After I gave them their order, they said "You should quit right now and come party with us." I just gave them a fake apologetic look and shut the window. After it was shut, I started talking to myself. The comments I was making were along the lines of "I didn't party when I was a teenager and I won't party with teenagers. But thank you ever so much!" (in a sarcastic yet amused tone of voice). I don't freakin' think so! Haha. If they only knew I am at least 10 years their senior. Haha.
I guess that is better than getting obscenites yelled at me from immature teenage boys in a moving vehicle. There is a big black vehicle that the same boys drive around. If they see me, they literally will cuss me out for no reason at all and call me foul names. Then, as they drive by (speeding all the while), they will crack up in hysterical laughter as if they just did the funniest thing. All the response they get from me is me rolling my eyes and shaking my head at them in resignation. I really want to yell back at them (in a saccarine sweet voice) "Jesus loves you!" and grin widely--one of these days. I'm pretty sure that isn't the right thing to say when you consider my motivation for wanting to yell it. Haha. I know I went through a similar stage in my life back about their age...or what I think their age is. We won't get into those stories though. Haha.
The things I put up with daily...haha. Humanity consists of a variety of personality choices.
So, has anything amusing happened to any of you lately? I want to hear your stories now!
Onto another subject now.
I have family in town from OK right now. I told them last night that I had to be at work at 6pm tonight. What do they do? They wait until after 6pm to call me--probably to see if I wanted to meet up with them. Silly people! I was at home doing nothing at all until 5:30pm. Why couldn't they have called me earlier today? By the way, this is my Great-Aunt Celia and her son who is in town. Aunt Celia is my maternal grandpa's sister. I don't know her very well. I really don't know her son. He is her caregiver though so where she is, he is. I obviously didn't get to see them today. They are here until sometime Sunday morning or afternoon.
My friend Yvette did come over and we visited for awhile this afternoon though. That was nice. She got back into town sometime last night. She, as well as some students/other teachers, was in the Washington D.C. area this weekend for something. I'm not sure why specifically they were in that area. Next weekend, 2 of my other friends (Megan and Lydia) are coming into town for a mutual friend's wedding (Sarah and Ron). I have to work but I'm going to see if I can get someone to cover for me that day. I want to go to Sarah's wedding as well as see friends. I seriously don't get to see friends very often anymore. I work too much. When I am not working, I'm sleeping (daytime-since I work nights).
I did get to see friends last night at a Pool party/grill-out. Afterward, we went to another friend's house (near where I live) and they played Rock Band. I sang along with some of the songs but not officially with the game. Haha. I had a freakin' blast at the pool party. I haven't swam all summer long. I think that ought to be a crime.  Now that I know that Stacy lives so close to me AND she has a pool, I think we'll be FAST friends. Haha, just kidding. I take to the water like a fish. I just wish I had the wind capacity/stamina of a fish. I told Stacy that if she ever wanted a swimming buddy that I would swim with her. Haha. I LOVE the water! As sappy as it sounds...it completes me and relaxes me.
I haven't always felt that way about water either. From about the ages of 6-12 years old, I was deathly afraid of the water if I didn't have a life jacket on, I could not swim. You can blame my own stupidity and my sister/cousin's influence. My family and I had gone to some water park in CA when I was about 6 years old. I was hanging out with my older sister and cousin Shilo. Well, stupid, gullible me followed their orders when they told me I should go down the water slide (into the deep end of the pool). I could not swim at the time and you had to be able to swim in order to go down the slide. There was a lifeguard at the top of the slide. They told me to tell the lifeguard that I could swim. So...I did, like an idiot. I assumed they wouldn't let any harm come to me. I have never held that assumption since that day. Haha. I did go down the slide. That part was the easy part. I nearly drowned when I landed in the water though and the lifeguards thought I was joking for awhile. They took their good sweet time figuring out that I was actually drowning...and I had to be saved. I was a little bit humiliated at the time.
Everytime my family would go the lake/swimming after that, I would be fine. I had no problems trusting others when they tried to teach me to swim. I just didn't trust the water or myself. They'd let go of me and I'd freak out every time. They gave up after awhile and just made me wear my lifejacket. I was perfectly happy with that situation for awhile too.
I didn't attempt to learn how to swim until I was about 12 years old. I was at church camp at the time and I was sick of being stuck in the shallow end. I just took off swimming as if nothing had happened. I have no idea where my courage came from. I am like that though. I will be afraid of what will happen if I attempt something I have previously failed at/been scared off doing for a LONG time. Then, one day, I will do it without the least compunction.
To this day, the water brings me a sense of peace.  |
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