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Why do I always get the ones that could go in two sections?
So I screwed up my shoulder today and had to go to the Emergency Room. Sapphire Silk drove me up there and sat with me. At one point they took me out to go get x-rays, but on the way they stopped to pick up another patient.
I could tell from the moment I saw him lying in the bed, bloody gauze wrapped around his finger and trailing everywhere in his lap as he constantly futzed with it. He was jittery and clearly tweaking on something. So they tell him he has to follow along and he's asking the nurse leading up if he has to have an x-ray, then breaks off on this weird almost stream of consciousness line of questions that he answers himself. When we get the x-ray waiting room, it is a little box of a room with three chairs against the left wall, two chairs against the back wall, and one of the wider two-seater chairs on the right wall. He goes in ahead of me and spends close to a minute looking back and forth between each of the chairs until finally he sort of nods to himself and falls into one of them.
He's bouncing like crazy, jittery as hell, sort of looking vacantly around and mumbling and talking to himself. Then he realizes I'm there and the fun begins.
He wants to know why I'm there. I hurt my shoulder. So I ask, What did he do?
He then proceeds to explain to me that he was trying to jump a fence into the lot of a rec center (at 9 o'clock at night). I couldn't catch the name of the place, but it has "an awesome track". He kept going on about how it was only a three foot high fence and caught his hand in the fence... in what I'm sure to him was excruciating detail but to me sounded like half-intelligible mumbles.
I get out of there, get my films, and then go back to my room, not seeing him again....
Until I get to the nearest 24-hour pharmacy to get my meds. Guess who shows up and wants to strike up the conversation again?
This time I hear that he'd been trying to make it to the rec center's back door, which was locked. Now alarms are going off in my head. Tweaked, trespassing, what else had he been intending? Sapphire Silk is sitting between us while we wait for the pharmacist to fill out prescription and looks pretty uncomfortable. He was creeping me out so I figured she was getting some of the vibe, too. Pharm calls my name and I get up to pick up my scrip and my phone buzzes.
It's a text from SS saying she thinks her Aspergers is kicking.
I about bust up laughing, but hold it together until we can get away. I have to reassure her that it wasn't her Aspergers that was making her feel weird around the guy, it was that "Uh-oh" feeling she's supposed to trust because he was creeping me out. If he was getting to her, that's a big indicator of just how creepy he was.
*OOC: The word "futzed" didn't get marked by the site as a misspelling. Huh.
So I screwed up my shoulder today and had to go to the Emergency Room. Sapphire Silk drove me up there and sat with me. At one point they took me out to go get x-rays, but on the way they stopped to pick up another patient.
I could tell from the moment I saw him lying in the bed, bloody gauze wrapped around his finger and trailing everywhere in his lap as he constantly futzed with it. He was jittery and clearly tweaking on something. So they tell him he has to follow along and he's asking the nurse leading up if he has to have an x-ray, then breaks off on this weird almost stream of consciousness line of questions that he answers himself. When we get the x-ray waiting room, it is a little box of a room with three chairs against the left wall, two chairs against the back wall, and one of the wider two-seater chairs on the right wall. He goes in ahead of me and spends close to a minute looking back and forth between each of the chairs until finally he sort of nods to himself and falls into one of them.
He's bouncing like crazy, jittery as hell, sort of looking vacantly around and mumbling and talking to himself. Then he realizes I'm there and the fun begins.
He wants to know why I'm there. I hurt my shoulder. So I ask, What did he do?
He then proceeds to explain to me that he was trying to jump a fence into the lot of a rec center (at 9 o'clock at night). I couldn't catch the name of the place, but it has "an awesome track". He kept going on about how it was only a three foot high fence and caught his hand in the fence... in what I'm sure to him was excruciating detail but to me sounded like half-intelligible mumbles.
I get out of there, get my films, and then go back to my room, not seeing him again....
Until I get to the nearest 24-hour pharmacy to get my meds. Guess who shows up and wants to strike up the conversation again?
This time I hear that he'd been trying to make it to the rec center's back door, which was locked. Now alarms are going off in my head. Tweaked, trespassing, what else had he been intending? Sapphire Silk is sitting between us while we wait for the pharmacist to fill out prescription and looks pretty uncomfortable. He was creeping me out so I figured she was getting some of the vibe, too. Pharm calls my name and I get up to pick up my scrip and my phone buzzes.
It's a text from SS saying she thinks her Aspergers is kicking.
I about bust up laughing, but hold it together until we can get away. I have to reassure her that it wasn't her Aspergers that was making her feel weird around the guy, it was that "Uh-oh" feeling she's supposed to trust because he was creeping me out. If he was getting to her, that's a big indicator of just how creepy he was.
*OOC: The word "futzed" didn't get marked by the site as a misspelling. Huh.
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