I ran into the grocery store to get money from the ATM. Standing at the machine was a short guy with shiny royal blue shorts that ended just below his knees on a pair of skinny spider legs. The white sweat shirt was cut off at his armpits. His head was rectangular topped by a flat top haircut, accentuating the rectagularity of his head that seemed to merged into his shoulders.
I gave him a wide berth, not wanting to interrupt his business with the machine, but I was still hit with the scent that took me back to the high school locker room, teenage/man sweat and aerosol Right Guard deodorant.
He was done looting the machine of a couple of 20's. I stepped up, put my card in the slot, grabbed a deposit slip from the little shelf area next to the machine, wrapped the slip around my finger and pushed the buttons to get some money.
Fucking paranoid, I tell ya.
Posted by Bill at May 15, 2004 01:30 PMThank Dog, I thought I was alone. I do that with the buttons in elevators too and I never hold the black rail on escalators, especially after I had witnessed someone doing something not so nice and putting their hands on the rail. Yuck!!
Posted by: Michelle at May 15, 2004 01:43 PMNow that it's regularly in the 80s here, the absence of hygiene among some members of the community is becoming very obvious.
Posted by: TW at May 15, 2004 08:15 PMYeah but at least you can use the ATM and your cell phone without risk of blowing up.
Posted by: Kathy Howe at May 17, 2004 08:39 AM