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Stardate: 20241121.2104
Location: The Lab
Input Device: ono-sendai
Audio: Hum of air cleaner
Visual: 4 LCD screens on monitor arms
Emotional: meh
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"Um, excuse me, we don't do that here," she says as she walks up
in her pink windbreaker and her medium-sized dog on a leash. I
look up at her curiously. She is a middle-aged white woman...let's
call her Karen.
"It's against the law to smoke anywhere in the park."
We aren't even in the park. We are outside the park on a trail.
"Thank you," I state noncommitally.
[[[ Teenage Rebellion - U N L O C K E D ! ! ! ]]]
I take a drag off my cigarette.
"You put that out right now! It is against the law!"
Her voice has gone up half an octave and is twice as loud. I
recognize this brand of crazy. I just look at her. She wanders off
further down the trail with her dog, muttering on about fires.
"Oh, oh, Karen, baby! Please tell me what to dooo! Ohhhh!!!!"
The words make me chuckle, but are not vocalized. I extinguish my
smoke and walk off in the other direction.
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