::COLD::
It’s freezing in here. Seriously. It’s usually like 100 degrees in here, but right now I’m in fuzzy pajamas, a sweater, 2 pairs of socks, slippers and an undershirt, and I’m still freezing. OY! It’s only gonna get worse! I think they keep the heat up in here because this apartment is so drafty. Without the radiators blasting tropical warm fronts all the time, the windows let in breezes like we were in a freaking wind tunnel.
I’m kinda too cold to write anything too exciting. I think my brain is frozen. I had a run-in with a crazed customer today. He kept laughing maniacally as he asked about some Playstation game that he likes to play. He was a short, squat, sandy-haired, scruffy 40-something who probably can’t afford better meds. When he laughed, he pulled his lips so tight you couldn’t see his teeth, which made it even creepier.
After he was done poking at the video games, he came up to the counter where I was standing and let me in on a little secret. “Humor. Humor is what helps me keep my insanity.” He then began to laugh manically again. “The crazy laugh helps.” He tried to convince me that the diabolically crazed laughing was all part of his schtick. Then he leaned in again and told me some of his pearls of wisdom. He wasn’t very coherent, so I don’t remember any of them, but after each one he would laugh like a drunken hyena and then talk about how you have to do the laugh, or the joke didn’t work. All the “jokes” involved how crazy he was; slightly more than the average barker-at-the-moon, yet not so much as to have body parts in his freezer.
He could have been a really exceptional undercover comedian for all I know, but somehow I think he was another Boston Loony, only with a particularly postmodern sense of psycho awareness. His whole schtick was very… meta. He smelled kind of bad, and I just wished he would stop talking to me about video games and get the heck out of my face. Luckily, after a few more “jokes” and crazed laughing that was becoming more and more forced-sounding, he left.
Thus endeth my day in the wonderful world of retail.
