First off, I’d like to say that I really appreciate all the things that the Salvation Army does, I really do. However, after today I think I’ve had enough.
It started with bell ringer at work. He was obviously down on his luck. He was dirty and he smelled. OK, I live in the city, I can handle that. But, as he went through my register at work, he proceeded to unzip his pants while going through my lane. He may have had another pair on underneath, I don’t know, I didn’t look.
Then he proceeds to crap all over the bathroom floor. I didn’t have to clean it up, thank goodness, but my friend did. And then he stunk up the employee break room. I left work, thinking I was in the clear.
Think again.
While at the bar, I was approached by my adopted dad. He said this lady needed help with the bus. I ride the bus, so I said I’d do what I could. She had missed her last bus. I gave her the money to call a ride, and figured that was that. She stuck around waiting for her ride. We talked, she was nice. She told me she was a bell ringer. She’d gotten fired for stealing on her first day. After awhile she looked at me and asked if it was a gay bar, well yes it is, and yes I’m gay.
The next thing I know, she’s got the only gay friend she has on the phone talking to me and she wants to hook up. I can tell that this chick is old and the fact that I don’t know her, I tell her that I have a girlfriend. Finally bell ringer #2 leaves and I can get back to normal.
I’m not complaining, otherwise I would have put this in the Pit. It has just been a very strange day. All this, and the priest that I saw reading the Weekly World News in my line at work. The one with the cover of Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussien photoshopped in drag on the cover. It has been one heck of a day and I’m glad it’s over.