Day Five
A reasonably uneventful day as fair goes. My feet were udder agony last night (enjoy the pun) so my mission was to walk as little as possible. I could have done better but my personality makes that hard. I’m too social an animal to hide in my cubicle for long when there’s so much going on. Hung out with Sam for a bit. For the first working day this fair I did NOT fix some piece of technology for my former department.
There was one odd moment when my boss and my boss’s boss were whispering to each other. I’ve been on the receiving end of both good and bad ambushes and my spidey sense wasn’t tingling so I think if it was about me, even that only has a 50% chance of being true, it doesn’t seem bad. Surprises are nice so I don’t think I’ll spoil this one, if it exists, by theorizing.
Ran into Eleana at the end of the day, we reminisced about how we met: I drew her a Garfield and told her a story about an alligator in the sanctuary. I told her how the plush Sleepy she gave me when I was having lots of insomnia was at my mom’s. The other person in the booth looked like she wanted to puke. It was great.
Fair can be a time machine sometimes. Imagine if I could travel back in time and tell myself on the day that I met Eleana that several years later she’d be married and I’d have a kid and we’d reminisce about how we met as she sits in a booth that was a modified copy of my design and me in another department.
My head would explode.
But traveling backwards, well, it seems like yesterday. I can even tell you where I bought the shoes I was wearing when we met. The booth was Lagoon North even though there was no lagoon anymore.
If one day something happens to me and I have amnesia show me a pinwheel, put me in a booth with a broken debit machine and someone asking a question and I’ll snap out of it. If ever I’m lost, the fair will bring me back. Calvin would know what to do. So would Alastair. Almost any of the family.
How many people know what it’s like to trust someone so implicitly? I would entrust many of them with my life without hesitation.
