Nicholas
Well-Known Member
Encounter at Woolworths.
It happened a month or two before lockdown began. I was helping my mother do her grocery shopping, standing near the milk refrigerator with her trolley when a tall, [taller than me, anyway, but I stand at only 1.63m] slender woman with short light brown hair and wearing a tracksuit asked me how I was doing as she walked by. I was taken by surprise, and could only babble "er...um....fine thanks". I thought she might be someone my mother knew, [my mother is much more sociable than I am, and talks to just about everyone] but could not ask her right there because she had gone off to pick a punnet of vegetables. I saw the mystery woman at a distance a few more times while at Woolworths, and pointed her out further back than us in the queue, my face twisted into an approximation of a smile. My mother did not recognise her.
For the next two weeks, I worked myself up into an oxytocin high, and was daydreaming about my life changing dramatically. I recognised that this was not good for me, and talked myself out of these feeling so as not to end up crashing badly.
It happened a month or two before lockdown began. I was helping my mother do her grocery shopping, standing near the milk refrigerator with her trolley when a tall, [taller than me, anyway, but I stand at only 1.63m] slender woman with short light brown hair and wearing a tracksuit asked me how I was doing as she walked by. I was taken by surprise, and could only babble "er...um....fine thanks". I thought she might be someone my mother knew, [my mother is much more sociable than I am, and talks to just about everyone] but could not ask her right there because she had gone off to pick a punnet of vegetables. I saw the mystery woman at a distance a few more times while at Woolworths, and pointed her out further back than us in the queue, my face twisted into an approximation of a smile. My mother did not recognise her.
For the next two weeks, I worked myself up into an oxytocin high, and was daydreaming about my life changing dramatically. I recognised that this was not good for me, and talked myself out of these feeling so as not to end up crashing badly.
