| January 3, 2003 - Harmlessly delusional or dangerously psychotic? You decide! |
| Dear Friends, I must tell you about the bizarre character I saw on New Year's Day. I had gone downtown to a bar where we were all watching the movie "Happy Gilmore". So while we're all wrapped up in the movie and laughing, this unusual looking person starts acting up at the bar. First a short description. I'd say he was over 6 feet tall, clean shaven with blond hair. He had pulled his hair up like a woman's and stuck those chopstick-looking things like geisha girls wear into it. That right there should have started the alarm bells a-ringin'! OK, so he starts talking to the guy sitting next to him about how famous he wants to be and that he really thinks fame is attainable for him, yaddy-yaddy-yada. He then gets into some sort of argument with the guy, yet as far as I could tell the man had not insulted him or anything. So the guy gets up and leaves Mr. Weirdo sitting there chatting amiably with an invisible companion. Every now and then he laughed at his invisible friend's jokes, saying things like, "Oh that's sooo funny! Oh, yes, you're right about that!" all the while pulling out his hair chopsticks and re-inserting them. Then suddenly he looked around the room and yelled at all of us, "You're right, all of you. I am a nobody! I'll always be a nobody!" After getting in another argument with a new patron and then laughing some more with his invisible companion, he got up and left. Immediately the bar staff starting talking about him. Apparently he had come in there on New Year's Eve wearing nothing but his underwear and a trenchcoat! Well, Dear Friends, those kinds of people are always attracted to JOHNNYLEEN for some reason, so I was terrified he would try to talk to me. (Be sure to read my "Things that have made me go 'hmmmm'" entry for a prime example.) While the guy was there, I had turned toward some other people just to hide the look on my face. When I turned back around, he glanced up and saw my reflection in the mirror over the bar (I was standing at a table behind him). He sneered at me and shuddered! Can you believe that? I think he was just jealous of my fantabulosity! JOHNNYLEEN does not mean to be unsympathetic to people with mental problems, but I've just never learned to deal with it well. I think it's something about their unpredictability. I mean, I adore unpredictability of the "Let's skip work and go party!" type, but the unpredictability of "Would you like to try on one of my hair chopsticks?" is a little more than I can take. So you decide....was he harmlessly delusional or dangerously psychotic? Next entry Previous entry Go to diary entries Go back home |