A detail I forgot yesterday, after walking Snickers, but still 20 feet or so from entering our apartment, this guy is coming up the hill with his dog (big dog), and its not on a leash. He said it was okay, his dog don't take interest in other dogs. Still I protectively kept Snickers near because she was refusing to want to go into the house, thinking she wanted to go over and meet this dog. Anyway, the guy leashes his dog so we'd feel safe and we draw nearer. Snickers sniffs the other dog, then all it does is merely turn its head to look at her and she starts yelping and dashes back, bumping her head against my knee really hard, acting like she just got attacked, but the other dog didn't do anything to her. Poor girl, she wants so bad to be able to interact but still that dog that tried to kill her back in North Carolina left a scar that runs deep, traumatized her. She didn't mind the guy's attention though.
So, as I figured, the point in him following me up was to meet me, yep, and so the questions came, where you from, how do you like it here in Texas, what do you do for work, how old are you (I looked early twenties he said, but then after I said how old I'd soon be, he's like oh, then we're the same age!),blah, blah, blah, oh and I look so strikingly similar to some 90s pop singer, I completely forgot her name shortly after he told me.
So anyway he asks my name, then tells me his initials, as well as name. Okay, nice to meet you, guess I'll see you around then. Oh geez, I think. Okay Snickers lets get inside, too friggin hot out here. By the time I got in the house I didn't remember his name nor initials, that was just less than a minute after he introduced himself, guess I didn't care to, not important. Not like he were ugly or creepy or anything, just didn't interest me.
Okay so that was yesterday. Today Snickers and I walk down the hill from our place, so this guy is outside with his dog (in the field near the lame ass dog park), I thought about walking another way, but I can't be avoiding my usual routes because some dude takes an interest in me. I was hoping he didn't notice me since I didn't see him look my way, he probably saw me before I did him and pretended he didn't until we were almost passed. Then its like, Hey Megan! Still he couldn't get over how much I looked like this singer chick he was telling me about yesterday, I think he said, Alanis Morissette (?). Anyway I know her name began with an 'A', so today I looked "popular female 90s pop singer"
Yeah, that's gotta be the one, I can see the similarity, long face, dark hair, her smile is much like mine. Never heard of her anyway (which was another reason he thought at first that I was very young, hey, I didn't get into music then), but the music which I only briefly loaded up to hear is familiar but not something I care for.
Then he asked if I didn't mind if he walked with me, so he got the other dog, this one I know by name, Buttercup (as in Princess Buttercup from The Princess Bride, his ex-girlfriend's dog whom lives there, this he told me later). So we walked up another hill towards where my mom works, he's asking questions, and telling me how pretty and natural I am, asks me about these two bracelets I'm wearing, if I made them myself, oh no, but I didn't give him details. Gets to telling me how if I'm not working or not making much how I can do really well selling crafts if I'm into any of that kinda stuff. I told him I cross-stitch, but they aren't easy sells. Then he was telling me how he does necklaces with pipestone (I had to look that one up when I got home) and started telling me how he does marijuana. Uh, no sorry, not into that stuff, I don't drink, smoke, nor do drugs, and I don't hang out with anyone that does, I needed to make that clear with him. He respected that, just asked if we could walk a little longer together then after the he'd go back and if we can't hang out at least can say hi when we see each other.
Snickers did not like walking beside Buttercup at all, she was trying to keep so much distance that she kept trying to walk out into the road (not a busy one), but I had to tell him that Snickers wasn't comfortable so we stopped. He complimented me some more, a little more conversation that was mostly him talking. Again, he wasn't a creep or anything, seemed nice enough despite being a hippie pot smoking ex-alcoholic. Nothing against that for others, but not for me, my standards are quite different. So after he left Snickers and I continued our walk, I didn't intend to walk so far because it was already getting quite humid out, but I figured out of decency I didn't want to be rude to this fellow so only walked as far was we did because he wanted to get to know me. Maybe I should've just been rude, that used to work for me, but I'm not like that anymore.
Anyway, after she did her business we took a short cut home through where we used to live, the first apartment we moved into when we got to Austin to get home quicker, I was getting thirsty and sweating too much. I would have liked to avoid this guy again, but the shortest route is passed the apartment he was staying at. So once again we're almost passed and he's on a cell, well he either must've told whoever was on the other end to hold or to call him back because he calls out to me and comes rushing over, said he had something for me. So he goes into the trunk of his car and fishes through a box, chooses something of many that he had, gives it to me. What is it? I question him. Its a pipestone necklace. To not be rude I accept it, thanking him, he said that if for some reason I don't like it I can always give it to someone else. Then he was telling me about some nature trails around here, I told him I had walked one before, but didn't feel safe walking along them again, kinda isolated, woman, smallish dog, not safe. He's like well, this part of Austin you know is a crime-free area. I'm like, uh, no place is crime free. But he offered that if I ever wanted to we could go hiking along them together. That he was strong, he'd protect me, saying this in a boastly manly way, gesturing his fist to his chest. I couldn't help but chuckle inside regarding that.
Then he starting talking more about energy and nature, that sorta stuff, and I can't remember what brought it up that he made mention of his ex-girlfriend that lives there. She's an older lady. Says he comes over once in a while to help her out (I bet, I think). And how he stays friends will all the girlfriends he's had. Uh-huh I think. Goes on more about why and how its good for people, karma and whatnot, and starts getting into closeness and how people need that, the contact, some crap about electrons, I don't know, but I could see where this was headed. Yeah, screwing. I'm not that way I tell him. But still he couldn't help in telling me how pretty I was and how I seemed such a nice person. Finally after a bit more chatter we say our good-byes, see you around. Okay, Snickers lets go! She and I head back home.
Once home I take out that necklace out of the clear tube it was in to check out it, hemp rope with a long reddish color stone tied to the end of it. Eh, its not me. I knew it wasn't when he gave it to me, either way being as to why he gave it to me, I should have said no thanks. Oh well. I don't wear necklaces, don't like the feeling of something around my neck and its a bit heavy. Keep, or give back? I wonder. I told my mom about my encounter, summed it up, and she's like uh-huh, sounds like a lazy ass to me, that's why he keeps in good with all his exes, so he'll always have someone to take care of him. As she has gotten older she has come to a point in her life that she can't stand men anymore, not that she's into women, just men disgust her sometimes. But I agree with her regarding what she said about him because I got the same vibes.
Again, nothing against how anyone lives their lives so long as they aren't hurting anyway. Alcohol, drugs, sex with multiple partners, whatever, so long as it don't affect me. I'm transsexual after all, but that's why I keep to myself, so it don't affect others that may disagree with it.
That's it so far today, that one event that prompted me to type up so much.
