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Posted by Susan47 on April 30, 2005, at 12:04:38
Last week I was at a local cutesy girl-stuff yummy store. I was intently admiring a pair of earrings with the salesperson at the counter, I'd picked them up from the display window and brought them back. We were talking about them, their price and such (boohoo) and they get them in regularly etc (yay) .. they were gorgeous, just the sort of thing I love, really femme you know, sparkly ... anyway I was turning around and met the gaze of an older woman, who was staring at me as though I were trying to steal something. It was odd, I gave her a tentative half-smile when I realized she wasn't a salesclerk, because that's how much her look said, Are you stealing? Anyway I walked away and put the earrings in the window and as I walked back again, she was saying to an older woman, her mother perhaps, gesturing to me and under her breath and not taking her eyes off me, "That's her that's her", kind of poking the older woman. I'm baffled, I think I must be hallucinating, you know, hearing things. I wonder if I do that sometimes. Because I think I might've had a puff that morning, to get myself out. Anyway this older woman was really cute. She looks up at me with these big round innocent eyes, you know, with a really open expression, like, I'm smart but I'm not showing it, and gazes at me unblinkingly (it was weird, okay) for long seconds, I give them both a tentative smile is is only kind of half-returned by the daughter .. I'm at the counter and the daughter gets so close to me she's touching me, her arm, you know? And I'm thinking, she's trying to get something from me, what is she doing? She doesn't need to be this close, there's so much room in here. So I just turn around and leave, but I see she's being really bossy now with this older woman, god don't you hate to see children treating their capable older parents like little kids? Aaagggh. And I'm thinking, okay, this was one hell of a hallucination, and I think you're paranoid, Susan.
I hate it when stuff like this happens. Hate it. Because you never ever know what's going through someone else's mind, and some people's behaviour is so curious, so incredibly interesting.
Posted by anastasia56 on April 30, 2005, at 14:50:20
In reply to Incident, posted by Susan47 on April 30, 2005, at 12:04:38
i love to make up scenarios for people i see walking around. my husband is used to it and even has started doing it himself.
so here is the story i have made up for this incident. the elderly woman has alzheimers and has a tendency to be paranoid. So when she started in about you the daughter, who is familiar with her mothers pattern, waited until you left (or were leaving)to tell her mother to cool it. What looked like her bossing her mother around was really an attempt to get her back to reality.and there you have it.
ana
Posted by Susan47 on April 30, 2005, at 15:54:34
In reply to Re: Incident » Susan47, posted by anastasia56 on April 30, 2005, at 14:50:20
No it was the younger of the women who was wanting the older woman to look at me, the younger who thought she knew me from someplace or some time. SHe was definitely thinking something about me, in particular. Like I said, it was really weird.. I figure if someone is that rude and thinks she knows you and is actually point you out, you know, then she has a responsibility to tell you what she's doing, exactly who she thinks you are. It's like the way that rumours get started. This woman wasn't a nice person. At least, she was being intrusive and unkind, to me, you know?
Posted by anastasia56 on April 30, 2005, at 16:23:24
In reply to Re: Incident, posted by Susan47 on April 30, 2005, at 15:54:34
oh, i get it now. yeah, she was definately rude...very, very strange behavior. maybe she thought she saw you on tv...do you look like anyone on 'Most Wanted'. That would explain her not wanting to tell you what she was talking about. sorry, i'm still thinking of ways to explain her behavior.
ana
Posted by Susan47 on April 30, 2005, at 20:45:31
In reply to Re: Incident, posted by anastasia56 on April 30, 2005, at 16:23:24
Yes, so'm I. I don't know, I suppose I could look like someone on Crimestoppers or America's Most Wanted .. I used to have a generic face, you know, be told I look like somebody else. It happened today, it was really funny, a man who thought I was somebody else said, "Oh, you do have a lovely *ss" ... was he ever red when he realized he didn't know me. I got a ten-dollar pledge out of him for saying that, for my son's Jump Rope for Heart campaign. It was a lovely way to start the day... my son was really cute today, and funny, adding up the money as he went along, and always so incredibly polite and kind and understanding to the people who said no. I was really a proud mom. Sheesh.
Posted by rainbowbrite on May 1, 2005, at 21:44:04
In reply to Re: Incident (rambling), posted by Susan47 on April 30, 2005, at 20:45:31
Susan that sounds very odd but you could also look at it like the girl was kinda crazy. Maybe she was sick and was being strange and the older women was downplaying it by not getting involved. Ive had that happen to me where people are looking at me like they know me or like they want to say something and the last time it happened I turned to the girl and said "do I know you?" she said no, but I was trying to figure out where you got your coat LMAO I was thinking hey b*tch stop looking me up and down. Turned out to be nothing but she liked my coat :-). So she could have been crazy or liked the earrings you had on or liked what you were wearing or even that she thouhgt she saw you on America's most wanted lol
Posted by justyourlaugh on May 3, 2005, at 22:39:18
In reply to Re: Incident (rambling) » Susan47, posted by rainbowbrite on May 1, 2005, at 21:44:04
smiling at a passerbye...getting only avoidance...
looking for a friendly face and only seeing their eyes dart away...
i am told it is all me...
but i really think i am the only one that is okay!!!
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