January 31, 2012

because this girl came down and sat across from me in the library even though there are lots of other places to sit and I was enjoying my unobstructed view of all the snowy downtown rooftops and late morning run

and she's sniffling and coughing and keeps loudly licking her lips

and I'm staring at her over the top of my macbook with as much disdain as I can mustre

because who just sits across from someone they don't know?

I mean, without even asking?

the nerve.

do we not have any social standards these days?

do we not have any respect for personal boundaries? for space?

it gets my goat that this person decided -(without asking!)- to sit across from me and obstruct my beautiful view with her sniffly face and greasy hair and loud lip-licking

it's diabolical, even

and I'd say something

-I would!-

but we're in a library, and anything I say will be heard far and wide and the last thing I want these people around me to think is I'm some uncouth person who would be so vain as to assume that this is my table and my view

because even though that's true, it isn't polite to say it

so I'll just stare at her while she loudly sips her coffee

and picks at scabs on her face

oblivious

and wonder how someone who is studying physics

(I can see her book)

can be so stupid when it comes to social norms.

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Post-script: she blew hew nose onto her hand and on table and didn't clean it up.

I couldn't handle it. I moved.