Water, Water, Everywhere.

TAnd so it goes, while waiting for a joyful vessel of transportation, another odd "Momentary Exchange of Words" was presented to me. It's a warm-but-not-searing type of day, thus I had a bottle of water with me. A man catches my eye, and already I know he's the type people tend to avoid. A little dirty, twice my age, and reeking of alcohol. I try to show signs of indifference and turn away, but it's too late, we had made eye contact. Most of the absurd inhabitants of our world see eye contact as explicit permission to walk over and have long obnoxious conversations with you. Even if you express severe disinterest in actually talking to them, too bad, you made eye contact and now you have to deal with the consequences.

I'd hate to come off as a pretentious bitch, but I'm not overly fond of people who talk like their trying to con you out of something, even when talking about the weather. So when he comes right next to me and proclaim loudly that he's like some of my water, I wanted nothing more then to back away. But then again I am a sucker for the insane, so I still answered him when he started rambling on. To sum up our conversation:

Him - "You don't like sharing do you?" (ramble loudly about water)
Me- "Not my water anyhow"
Him - "I like Sharing" (more rambling)
Me- "Good for you"

Then he whips out a large rolls of twenties and starts thumbing through them, proclaiming once again how much his likes sharing. Ridicules really, especially when in bad English he asks if I "wanna get wid him". Heheh, I'm such a loony, I found that so funny that I couldn't keep myself from laughing. To avoid embarrassment on both sides I just walked away, water and all. That didn't stop him from scream obstinacies for the next five minuets.

If I know You, I Can Mooch Off Of You!

This is a funny one, and the inspiration for this whole section. Causal smokers might bum off a cigarette from a friend or three, but nothing beats the fun desperate cries of a chain smoker. When they run out of people to get free cigs from, they rely on the kindness of strangers, which doesn't succeed regularly. So this woman...a woman with a mission... came up with a plan. Since people she knows seem to be willing to give them their addition more readily then strangers, she'll just have to act as if she knows you. A summery of what happened:

Her: "Hey I know you!"
Me:  "I don't think so, I really don't live around here"
Her: "No, really, I know you, we've met before"
        "We hung out and stuff" (and without waiting, rushes into her scam)
        "Can I have a cigarette?"
Me: "Sorry, I don't smoke"
Her: Doesn't say anything, now that her goal is crushed she moved on to the next person

So much effort for free Cigaretteas, doesn't this sort of hint that inflicting fake "friendships" upon people is a sign that many you'd be better off quitting? Such a simple thing, but I found it rather funny.