"Jesus Jina you look like someone from the black panther party."
"Would you quit playin" she slaps me and we walk towards the MSNBC booth because really thats all there is to see at the RNC.
"This sucks, you can't see anything!" she screams as we walk back towards the car later.
"yeah, I know" we both watch really expensive jewelry and coach bags swing past us in a sweet aroma," all these people totally suck."
I shrug with my hands in my pocket in the cold and Jina turns to me, "What if we get swept up by the protesters"
no protesters in sight I lean into her, " yeah well your their first suspect" and we laugh as we get back into my car.
I started school last week. It's been pretty good. I kind of like going to school in the city to see all the big buildings and the people watching but all the romance pretty much stops at the numerous hard to swallow multiple of attitudes and the cars that like to play chicken with pedestrians. Kind of makes me appreciate the little quiet patch of earth I embed myself in.
Today I've had a full day of homework and took a break to catch pizza luces happy hour before my second class starts. Nothing better then a couple of pints before color theory.
When I went in I stood for ten minutes at the pizza counter waiting while busy pizza makers in the back just looked at me. "Geez Luce isn't known for it's exceptional service but this is ridiculous" I say as I walk over to the bar and there are two workers just sitting in a booth. When one squinted at me and gave me attitude "HELLO, CAN I HELP YOU". I felt my eyebrows lower . "Can I get a piece of pizza over at the counter?"
"Yeah you can?" she looks at me weird.
At this point I just thought to myself why do alternative people have to be such assholes sometimes and why is it when you come to these kinds of places in the city luce, first ave, triple rock the workers have to match the atmosphere.
"well, theres no one over there?" I say and she runs up, " Oh okay I can help you."
and she gives me two pieces of pizza when I only paid for one and told me about the drink specials at the bar.
I realized that I don't know why she gave me all the weird faces but she wasn't trying to be a jerk it was just my initial judgement of her.
Full stomach and walking back I realized with all the RNC stuff going on in St. Paul and all the weird judgements that I've made and other people make against other parties that really it might just be kind of not necessary. We should just respect other peoples opinion, not judgemental and mostly open minded. Know that in our own minds we are out for each others better good.
I don't know if I'll ever stop being a judge but I'm doing my best. Today was a good reminder.
On another note we talked about the brain in class today and do you realize that scientists still don't know how we tick? It was one of the best news I heard of the whole day. One more thing out there that still lies a mystery just like big foot and the lockness monster.
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