You better step the fuck off right now, because the spot you are standing in is about to be dangerous.
–Orb

I said that, out loud, to another human being, at the grocery store. He was a crazy person. Not a harmless crazy person or even a creepy crazy person but a downright spooky-creepy crazy person. At the moment I said that, he was standing behind me so closely that if I had forcibly moved my elbow straight back, I would have had a clear and solid blow to his lower sternum. I’d have done it too had he had not enough sense to step the fuck off right away. He darted around the corner, and two seconds later one of the ladies I know that works there showed up with a security guard. Apparently I wasn’t the only one whose space he had been seriously invading.

He wasn’t the only completely crazy person there this morning either. There was weirdo by the eggs just standing there staring into space, a nutty woman sitting on the floor of the produce department eating cherry tomatoes, and a guy in front of me in the express lane with a loaf of bread he needed an entire push cart for, a push cart he then left right in front of me when he put his bread on the conveyor belt. That actually turned out to be a lucky thing for me, because my ten items were sort of heavy. Saved me having to carry them all the way out to the truck. Still, he was a crazy person all the same. Did they just kick a bunch of folks out of the state-run nut house or something without their meds?!

Here’s another Orb quote from this morning:

“Look, either pick the thing up, put it in your truck, and bring it home or stop torturing me.”
–Orb

That was said to Lin who ran across what he described as the cutest kitten in the world at one of his work sites … a kitten he says is so sweet and affectionate it makes our little panthers look mean and evil. I could hear it mewing and purring over the phone as it crawled all over him. I don’t think Lin will actually pick it up and bring it home, but that was how we were adopted by Fuzza, so you never know. I didn’t really want a six month old kitty right now, even if it is orange and white and fluffy and loving, but I think we all know if it arrives at the house, it will be staying. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see if it manages to totally win Lin over or not. I’m sort of hoping not. December is insane enough without new pets being introduced to the household. Besides, I have been thinking I want a dwarf hamster instead of another cat anyway.

Now to read some news and then back to the long, long list of things I really need to do today. Blech.