September 9, 2023
I figured out what my greatest skill is. I can listen to someone spewing facts at me and ignore them all. Facts don’t stay in my brain, so I ignore most of them. When I hear the other person express an opinion based on the facts, that’s when I listen. People who spew out facts rarely understand or care where their facts come from. Their opinions come from questionable facts. This makes their opinions questionable. My usual point to them is pointing out how illogical their opinion is. I don’t give them facts to back up my argument. I walk them through the other side of their argument. This is not me disagreeing with them. It is presenting other possibilities. Understanding any issue is only about understanding the possibilities. Each fact, even if true, leads to many distinct possibilities. Conclusions are as varied as the possibilities.
September 10, 2023
When I was in the sixth grade, I got contacts for the first time. They gave me glasses, but I only wore those at home. I was such a fragile little flower as a child, I couldn’t fathom the thought of standing out. Being a nerd who needed glasses was obvious enough. Fitting the stereotype of a nerd was too much. I started with hard contacts, but eventually went to soft ones. If I ever had a contact fall out, I would panic until I could get it back in my eye. It says something that I was responsible enough to handle wearing contacts. Most kids were too immature and irresponsible even with just glasses.
My contact wearing continued into adulthood. In 2009, I got pink eye and couldn’t wear my contacts without reinfecting myself. I wore the glasses that I only wore at home. They were like the glasses my dad wore and he passed away in 2003. I freaked out people who knew my dad when he was alive. Eventually, I got a new pair that was more my style. It will take me quite a few years to wear glasses as long as I wore contacts. Wearing glasses has changed how people interact with me and probably how I act with other people. There’s a reason Velma was the smart one on Scooby-Doo. Of course, anyone would appear smart compared to a dog and drugged out hippie.
September 16, 2023
Yesterday was Patti’s birthday. If you think I’m going to tell you which one, you’re stupider than I look. We went to Disneyland on the fourteenth. It was the usual overeating of foods I don’t normally eat. Patti loaded up on Marie merchandise. Marie is the little white kitten from The Aristocats. I got a Nightmare Before Christmas popcorn holder, but only because Patti wanted a cotton candy. Perhaps I should explain. At the place we got the holder, they didn’t have popcorn. We eventually got popcorn somewhere else. My weight the next morning was 2.6 pounds higher. Just another day in Birthday Land.
I’ve noticed something when I walk through crowds with other people. Just about every time, I fall behind everyone I’m walking with. It’s not really a mystery why it happens. I’m just overly polite. Other people weave in and out of crowds, but I always wait for people. If I’m in the middle of another group, I let the rest of their group catch up. Patti loses me often in crowds. She passes people up that I’m not willing or able to pass. When she looks back, she invariably says to the people in back of her, “You’re not my husband.”
Politeness and kindness have been a constant in my life. If someone takes advantage of my kind ways, they see a different side of me. When I was shy, I had to put up with many things, but those days are over. I’m nice to other people until they prove unworthy of my niceness. Paying attention to the world around you has become a rare commodity. When people acknowledge me, I acknowledge them back. If they are polite to me, I’m extra polite to them. This is why I have problems with crowds. I’m surrounded by people who don’t think they have time to be polite. Competition ruins everything, including walking. No one wants to be separated from their group, so they are rude as a group to other people. People never consider politeness when they’re competing with other people.
Patti and I saw the Weird Al Yankovic movie. It was only on the Roku channel and I figured out how to watch it. It was hilarious and very fake. The exaggerated and mainly fictional events of his life made for good, absurd humor. Most times, I would rather see the actual events of someone’s life, but the movie did a good job at mixing actual events with absurdly humorous cameos and exaggerations. The end of the movie disappointed me. It was cartoonish and had a cliché villain that was SOMEONE HE KNEW! I can forgive the movie partially because it was actually making fun of these kinds of cliches in movies. Overall, Patti and I really enjoyed it.
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