Confounded
Okay, I know I said I wouldn't talk about the Wal-Mart thing, but there's one thing just eating away at me: the guy behind me in line was buying a fish. Like, a real live fish. He was standing behind me, holding a plastic baggie with water and a single fish. Nothing else. Just the fish.
What the hell happened? Did he wake up in the middle of the night and decide that what his life was really missing was a fish? Or did he get home from his work at a bar or restaurant, find one of his pet fish dead and, being obsessive compulsive and unable to sleep until he had precisely eight fish, he trotted down to Wal-Mart to replace Flippy? Maybe it was a dare? Now I'm concerned for the fish...like it was a drinking game, and someone dared him to swallow a live fish, but he was sort of attached to the fish he had in his tank, so he asked if he could just go buy a new fish. Or perhaps it was some elaborate scavenger hunt...
I mean, I understand purchasing a fish...I don't quite grasp purchasing a fish at midnight on a Wednesday.
You know...perhaps it was just part of the television show that is my life. I'm still not entirely convinced that my life isn't a set-up, kind of like The Truman Show. Certain goofy stuff that happens to me - the T-Bone incident, random guy buying a guppie at midnight - these things make me think I'm being set up. Perhaps it was to see whether I'd blog about it.
Yep.
1 Comments:
let the fish go al...stop, breathe, find your happy place, and assume the fish is destined for far greater things than a life in a tank at wal mart. maybe it was the universe rescusing the fish from the certain hell it must have been experiencing and god channled that guy to save this one fish, his son re born as a fish to save the souls of other fishes...and in two thousand years this one fish will be worshipped and praised as the savior from one population of fish while a similar yet different group of fish reject that fish as the savior yet think of him solely as a "prophet" fish and well we all know the rest of the story...but the man who saved the fish, this man will go down in history as the one who let the divine fish free.....orrrr he killed his three year olds pet fish and had to replace it before she woke up, im rooting for the divine fish theory. peace out....
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