if i were katherine mansfield

20071201

freestyle: stack your chairs




Anyways. We’re always hiding. This is why we wear clothes. There’s never a time we don’t hide.

Today, I didn’t know how to use my camera. I had turned off the display button by accident and the LCD screen got all dark. So I took it to the Sony Store at Sherway Gardens and the salesman pressed the button, solved the problem for me before I even finished asking my question. Christmas was in the air again, bouncing off shopwindows and marble tiles. I sat on a bench to study my camera. I wanted to take a picture of the Christmas air, but I didn’t want to make people nervous. I treat people like how I want to be treated, and I’ve never liked to shoot myself with a camera, let alone others. I don’t understand couples who sit around shooting at each other from point blank. “Why don’t we put that away and talk about something interesting?” is what I’d say.

Then I found myself at the usual coffee shop at Dundas and Dixie. It’s my favourite Tim’s coffee shop because it’s clean and the people who work there I’ve gotten to know without ever talking to them except for when I say stuff like “Medium double-double… Toasted with butter…” and they’d get me the stuff and I’d feel all warm inside from the cream of broccoli soup, which is exactly what happened today.

I sat down and took a picture and it turned out to be smudgy lights. It was well past seven when I left, but I didn’t want to go home yet. I wanted to hang out in another coffee shop, and I was thinking of which one, maybe the Starbucks near my home, but what would I drink? I had had my share of caffeine already. But here’s the thing: I didn’t want to go home because I fancied there was a spark in the corner of my eye. I saw it through the glass. I like to sit and read in coffee shops when I see this spark. I want to tell you this because one day I’d read this and laugh all over myself!

At the end of class today, I asked the kids to stack all the chairs but they left two chairs unstacked. I asked them if they were discriminating against those two chairs. “I said all the chairs! Are these not chairs? Are they any different from the rest of the chairs? How would you feel if all your friends got stacked except you?” Then they stacked the two chairs and we all got a good laugh. Hopefully their parents would see it’s a Saturday and the kids have had a long day in school and deserve to go to Pizza Hut.




星夜之戀
Douceurs Doux

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