Friday, March 27, 2009

24

katy and I are working the door at some party. three guys come through to leave. there's one skinny guy who doesn't have a shirt on and hits on katy. I say something like, "Hey, you're barking up the wrong tree, pal" and try to get this group to move along. The guy continues to talk shit as they walk down this long hall way exit and then Katy decides to follow them. I'm like What? Then the party organizers show up, a well dressed man and woman, just as Katy walks out the door and want to know where she is. I tell them to wait, that I'll go get her and I follow this string that leads outside and find her next door with that skeezy guy. They are making out and I try not to be seen. I head back inside but turn around one more time and I think that they see me so I start running back to my post. I tell our bosses that she is on her way back. I'm kind of heartbroken about it and when Katy comes back I ask her why she would go for a guy like that instead of me. The party people tell me I need to lighten up, that either of us could go home with anyone from the party that we wanted to, and that we should go pick someone out.

Inside the party there are lots of tables and chairs and it looks like I'm inside an airport. Lots of people to choose from. There's a buffet line. I chat up two girls and get some food and have a seat next to some old man. My uncle Donald finds me and sits across from me and makes fun of the old man. The guy gets mad, and my uncle says something like , "I'm sorry, I thought you just looked like some person," and the guy says, "I am a person," and my uncle says, "No, but like.... a really simple person."

Then I'm walking down the street with a new girl, someone I don't know. There are homeless people all along the street. She always stops to give every person money or jewelry or anything else that she has. I think about how I could also help these people but I don't want it to seem like I'm just trying to impress her. We arrive at this set of three benches that each has a person sleeping on one. The first one is a woman who is overly appreciative. The next one is a legless doctor, an old chinese man who still wears his scrubs, and the girl gives him a gold necklace that she wears. The next man tells us more about the old doctor and explains that he really needs more than anyone else and that he's also blind. I feel very moved by this to give the man whatever I can. I dig in my pocket for all my change and give everything but the pennies (and one quarter that I save for a vending machine) and then also a fat wad of cash. I feel like its not enough.

Later I'm with my nephew Conor watching him swallow pills.

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