People I saw today

Today I saw:

– A man take off his jeans in the middle of town. His wife helped him get them off over his tramping boots. He was wearing trackpants underneath- the kind that make that swishy sound when you walk.

– A woman in an expensive looking exercise outfit (including the newest nike trainers) having a power fag

– A large tall man wearing an oversized camo jacket with a big gold glitter skull embossed on the back. He was going down the travelator at the mall holding a solo plastic bag filled with cans of jellymeat.

-An old lady pull out of a car park. To indicate, she extended her elegant, wrinkly hand out the window. She almost cut me off but I didn’t mind because she did it in style. She was wearing her Sunday best: a hat, silk scarf, jewels and lipstick. She drove a silvery beige  toyota corolla.

– A woman exercycling on her deck watching the traffic go by.

– A man selling pictures of Jesus framed in shells outside Glassons.

V

My dar so far: Supermarket

Today I went to the supermarket to do some browsing. In Australia they have Woolworths too which is recent thing, the chain used to be called ‘Safeway’. It always seemed creepy to me, safe from what?

It is far from safe.

I went straight to the pic n mix section to get a bag of treats to eat while walking around. I walked through the fresh produce section and turned down isle 1. As I was turning the corner I locked eyes with a balding man. It was as if time stopped and I couldn’t look away. He was mid chew, probably made the mistake of sampling the chocolate caramels, and he looked so guilty like a possum caught in the headlights and the headlights were me.

I stayed trapped in this transaction and started to panic. It started to feel really dirty.  

I backed away and walked as fast as possible towards the shampoo and conditioner section. I got a bottle of Herbal Essense Yellow Shampoo and the matching Conditioner and went straight home to have a shower. I used the Shampoo as body wash and dropped my toothbrush into the bath section.

It swam into the plug head down as I watched, then I picked it up and used it. 

-T

Today

– Today I passive aggressively cleaned the kitchen.

– Today i sat on my deck and watched a little kid call his brother a fucker and say that he was going to die.

– Today I tried to put together an outfit that would make me generally appealing, i thought it would be good to emphasize my waist.

– Today i read about mating rituals between penguins and i cried.

– Today i learned that the lips are the most expressive part of the face. I was disappointed

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My day so far: I didn’t have anyone to cover me at work so I could go and get some lunch

Today I was really hungry at work but I didn’t have any food and no one to cover me. I rang my dad to complain about it. He had my mum deliver this to me:

Inside the tinfoil was a raisin and a broken cornflake.

– V

My day so far: stripping 3 days a week

The bar manager at the strip club asked if we’d like to audition. He said we’d earn the same amount in three nights as we would in a week at our normal job.

Not sure what I’d do for the other two days of the week.

– V

My day so far: Mcdonalds car park

I just went to Mcdonalds in our Toyota Previa. I did drive through and got a cheeseburger combo which I ate alone in the car in the Mcdonalds carpark. Then i went to the supermarket and spent 15 minutes trying to find chicken stock for the bolognese i’m cooking for dinner, all the ingredients bought with boyfriend’s money.

I’ll now drink the wine that will go into the bolognese that my boyfriend paid for, cook dinner and do some cleaning before he comes home.

– V

My day so far: bath

I ran a bath. To create the perfect temperature I’m never sure whether to fill the bath with the tap pouring both hot and cold water or just pour hot then top up with cold. So I just filled it hot and it got pretty full. Then I put in some cold water. I didn’t let it go on for too long.

Then I lit three supermarket emergency candles that I had put into a rinsed out relish jar.

A while later I got into the bath. It was now lukewarm.

– V