some people

over the course of my short working life, i have been forced to come into contact with many people whom i would never voluntarily have anything to do with.

some of them turn out to be fine, others are weird as fuck, and another small minority are just purely fucked up people.

today we shall aim the spotlight at the group of people who are weird as fuck.

there's a guy who is almost completely unable to see things outside of his own point of view. the only way he can make sense of the world around him is by forcefully implementing his own brand of logic onto literally everything.

he is constantly seeking correlations between events and then applying these links onto other differing events, something that often makes me shake my head in disbelief.

for example today he was talking about this girl who told him that a (minimally) 'famous' guy likes her.

"i think it's not true," he said. "if i'm as famous as him, i wouldn't go for a normal girl. i would target higher level girls."

"but everyone has their own preference," i told him.

"yah, but still, he's well-known, he can go for any girl he wants."

"then maybe he wants her?" i asked, half in jest, because i already knew where this was going.

"no no, that's not possible. she's just a normal girl."

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there's a girl who likes to project her guilt upon others. it's a strange behavioral anomaly for which i am unsure if she does on purpose or if it's an uncontrollable aspect of her psyche.

for example there was one day she and i were having lunch near our workplace. an old man comes by selling tissues. she looks at him pitifully, then rejects him. the old man lingered.

she then looks up at me. i could see the guilt on her face. "do you want to buy?" she asked with more than a hint of prompting in her voice. i shook my head. she then rejects him again and he goes off.

later as i was done with my meal, i accidentally got my hand dirty. she looked at me. i could sense it, but i thought it couldn't be, it would be so outlandish and impossible...

i had to do it.

"do you have a tissue?" i asked.

"no! don't you have?! i thought you had! then why didn't you buy from the old man just now?!?!"

what in the fuck?