Memories of ignored missed meetings...

since I have been thinking lately about seeing people on the street a lot, I have encountered a new problem...

There are many times when you are sitting at a table, or on a couch in a coffee house or restaurant, when a friend struts up and slaps you upside the knee, and wants to know why you didn't wave to them yesterday while you were walking down the street and they drove by? They even honked at you!...

And as you stare up pensively at the ceiling and the wavy squiggles that so often accompany past thoughts and the move to remember them, cloud your vision and you start to see that moment clearly, as waking from a short nights rest and groggily moving about your room... You remember, a clown now, and you were riding a monkey, no wait, he was riding you, and the fire hydrant was gushing out zebras all over the side of the new firetruck that had a latter made from cigarettes, and there was a man, oh what a horrible looking man, wearing a purple coat that ran all the way down to China, and the buttons on the coat were neon lights that burned your eyes... Oh wait that was the dream you had last night...

Now you remember, down on the corner of Third and Graymore St. You saw a car, it kind of look liked the car that your friend drives, but everyone in this town drives that make a model, and red is the most popular color too. More than that, even if it was your friend, you can't tell because there is a huge glare from the sky hitting the windshield obstructing your view of the driver. So you ignore it, for surely it isn't your friend. even when you hear a honk, and someone yelling something, you ignore it thinking to yourself, "people these days are just so impatient, they can't wait for anything, honk honk honk, move move move, go go go, yell yell yell, shut up and learn that the rest of the world isn't quite as great as you are yet..."

Reality returns..."Oh that was you?" you say in a "I'm so stupid I didn't even notice that there was a scene going on at all" voice. "Yeah that was me!" is their reply, like it makes any difference now, you still ignored them then and you wish you could be ignoring them right now...