So this morning I’m riding in wild spurts of speed and severe stoppage in the right hand lane of Wilshire, per usual, when I see this guy pull up on my left.
Silver Mazda Van (a fellow zoom zoomer), dark, kind of cute, maybe asian or philippine, and he’s …. Smiling at me. WTF?
I smile, and think, ok, whatever, that makes no sense, but I’ll take it and run.
Then the traffic moves a bit more and he actually pulls up alongside me again and WAVES and smiles.
Now I’m puzzled and embarrassed. Ok this makes no sense, I’m so much older and considerably a heavier person than this guy (I checked in the mirror, thinking to myself, what the HECK is he SEEING?). I look honestly at my profile at a stoplight. I’m not that interesting. Makes no sense. I look older than he is by
about 10 years. Makes no sense. I don’t acknowledge much, playing with
my hair. Maybe it’s just blonde hair?
He pulls up later a THIRD time and smiles and waves and starts unintelligible talking at me. I smile and point at my wedding ring. This seems to make no difference, he keeps talking and gestures — but again, I have no idea what his gestures mean. They’re definitely not the kind you can mistake for “Hey can you tell me where Doheny is?”
I’m just wierded out now. Too wierded out to turn down the blaring OK Go and find out what the heck he’s actually saying.
I think, ok he must be a scumbag. He’s in a van. Scumbags drive vans. Kidnappers drive vans.
Or maybe he’s only interested in my car??? Or my ghettoblasting stereo? Or maybe he doesn’t care because he has a wife already and kids (after all, he has a van) and he’s just a desperate househusband. I’m confused, but I’m no longer comfortable. I don’t know why I am, because after all, what harm could come to a woman at 45 mpg through glass? But still my initial reaction is to bolt, which I do.
In retrospect, I now truly wonder what the heck he was thinking. I know he was smiling at MEEEE. Not the car. I looked in the mirror at work. WWWWWHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAT? What on EARTH could he have seen?
Citizenship????
That’s what this period of life does to you. You start to see doubt everywhere. I no longer trust any response to me at all. I should have found out what he was saying….. Maybe it was something like, you look like someone, or…. Do you know you have no license plates? or Will you take my dog off my hands? He’s in love with you. Damn. I should have asked.
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