{"id":47,"date":"2001-02-07T00:36:13","date_gmt":"2001-02-07T05:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=47"},"modified":"2001-02-07T00:36:13","modified_gmt":"2001-02-07T05:36:13","slug":"note-pic-not-related","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=47","title":{"rendered":"note: pic not related"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"opWin('http:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/img\/imgPopup.htm?i=heymercedes-nanna.jpg&amp;w=0896&amp;h=0592','imgPopupWin','toolbar=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=5,top=0,width='+(screen.availWidth-20)+',height='+(screen.availHeight-30)+',scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes');\"><\/p>\n<p><\/a><br \/>note: pic <u>not<\/u> related to SDF (there&#8217;s not even any washers or dryers).<\/div>\n<p>h e y !&nbsp; had another of those spontaneous daylight (sort of) fantasies<br \/>\n&#8212; at night they&#8217;re called nightmares (or wet dreams, if you&#8217;re lucky).&nbsp; it<br \/>\nwent: i was doing laundry, met a guy there who i&#8217;d probably met there before<br \/>\nduring my anti-social depressive state (recently ended, i hope).&nbsp; i said<br \/>\nhi, rattled on and on about my love of snow (we have fifteen new inches here in<br \/>\nWorcester), and i was generally just nauseatingly friendly.&nbsp; he was, in my<br \/>\nspontaneous daylight fantasy (SDF), living in with the single mom and her two<br \/>\nlittle girls upstairs from the laundry room.&nbsp; as he left with a basket-heap<br \/>\nof clean laundry he said something about buying some other kind of white<br \/>\nstuff.&nbsp; he wanted to sell me drugs.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>i said, &#8220;what?&#8221;&nbsp; knowing exactly what he had said.&nbsp; he replied, &#8220;nothin,&#8221;<br \/>\nand he darted out the door.&nbsp; feeling like that had just made me appear like<br \/>\na prude who was temporarily in the middle of a friendly-talkative-manic phase, i<br \/>\nwent outside after him.&nbsp; &#8221;&nbsp;<br \/>\nh&nbsp;e&nbsp;y&nbsp;!&nbsp; &nbsp;&#8221; i yelled.&nbsp; he stopped &#8212; this was a<br \/>\ngood thing.&nbsp; he could have ignored me, abandoning our encounter as just<br \/>\nanother wasted few moments of human interaction.&nbsp; he certainly could have<br \/>\nmisinterpretered anger in my voice when i yelled &#8216;hey!&#8217; &#8212; imprecise vocal<br \/>\nmodulations are the way with us manics, and i was a bit loud.&nbsp; but maybe it<br \/>\nwas my frustration because another social effort (which are rare as gold in<br \/>\nthese parts &#8212; at least for my part) was wasted because i was mistaken, again,<br \/>\nfor something i am not, or at least for something i don&#8217;t want to be.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>he probably thought i wanted to rat him out, or fuck with his head, or<br \/>\nthreaten his apartment situation just because &#8212; oh, who knows why, just because<br \/>\nonce-upon-a-bad-time-reagan told us it was o.k. to hate certain people for<br \/>\ncertain reasons.&nbsp; but he (my laundry encounter) stopped anyway and waited<br \/>\nto hear me.&nbsp; i look for that; people who still hold out for the potential<br \/>\nof the unknown in spite of their fear of the known.&nbsp; it felt like kindness,<br \/>\nand as he stood there looking at me, his eyes were clear as innocence.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>anyway, (this is going on forever) i didn&#8217;t want to take the easy way out,<br \/>\nand stay with my laundry while he brought his home, and let it end without at<br \/>\nleast an effort to be clear, to understand and be understood.&nbsp; &#8220;maybe i do<br \/>\nand maybe i don&#8217;t want some,&#8221; i said to him.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;i don&#8217;t know what you&#8217;re talking about,&#8221; he started to say before i got the<br \/>\nfirst &#8216;maybe&#8217; out.&nbsp; i forged on, tolerating his understandably defensive<br \/>\nreaction, hoping i did actually understand, hoping i was not acting<br \/>\nirrationally.&nbsp; i&#8217;ve done <b>that<\/b> before&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;i know a lot of people who have used lots of drugs in the past, some of my<br \/>\nfriends still use drugs, occasionally.&nbsp; i like them all, a lot.&nbsp; i<br \/>\nmight even consider buying some weed from you in the future, who knows, but<br \/>\nright now i just don&#8217;t want there to be any misunderstanding; i don&#8217;t have any<br \/>\nproblem with that.&nbsp; it was nice talkin to ya, i&#8217;ll see ya round.&#8221;&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>i turned back to the laundry room, half expecting him to roll his eyes and<br \/>\ndismiss me with a disconcerted sneer.&nbsp; i left him just standing there,<br \/>\nholding his laundry.&nbsp; &#8216;i tried&#8217; i thought with resignation, as i descended<br \/>\nthe few little steps back down to the basement laundry room door.&nbsp; when the<br \/>\ndoor didn&#8217;t close behind me, i looked, and there he was.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>he sat on top of one of the dryers, and we talked until my laundry was all<br \/>\ndry.&nbsp; it didn&#8217;t seem to take long at all.&nbsp; over weeks we got to know<br \/>\neach other, he would stop by for coffee.&nbsp; he&#8217;d smoke, i&#8217;d pass.&nbsp;<br \/>\nusually.&nbsp; one day he walked in, i said hi, he didn&#8217;t say anything.&nbsp; he<br \/>\nclosed my apartment door, and leaned back on it.&nbsp; and never taking his eyes<br \/>\noff of mine, he grabbed his cock and&#8230;&nbsp; <\/p>\n<div>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<br \/>\n&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>speaking of &nbsp;<br \/>\nh e y !&nbsp; , check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heymercedes.com\/\">hey<br \/>\nmercedes<\/a> (their cool front pictured above).&nbsp; of course they have a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heymercedes.com\/wire.html\" title=\"are you wearing a wire\">blog<\/a>!&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>note: pic not related to SDF (there&#8217;s not even any washers or dryers). h e y !&nbsp; had another of those spontaneous daylight (sort of) fantasies &#8212; at night they&#8217;re called nightmares (or wet dreams, if you&#8217;re lucky).&nbsp; it went: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=47\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-worcester"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}