Trouble, Thy Name Is Podi

Two things which will get me in trouble:

First, my near-blind eyes. Coupled with my anti-social device, I might as well have been anyone's stranger. Always, always I will not notice a friend merely a few steps away who's waving frantically to get my attention. For instance, last night I was walking home from a movie in Greenbelt when a friend was doing just that (well, maybe not frantically). I thought it was just some crazy blur in neon green crossing the street begging to be ignored. It turns out the crazy neon green blur was a friend I haven't seen for quite some time. He had to grab my arm and reintroduce himself to me -- which I found really funny. I chuckled despite of myself.

And this morning, a friend told me she saw me at Greenbelt last night too, at the same spot where the incident in the previous paragraph happened. She was seated outside Starbucks GB1 with another friend and they were both waving their arms, trying to catch my attention. Again, I seem to remember a red vapor-like thing near the bushes, but I thought it was one of those annoying random things (I never learn) so I treated it the same regard as I would, say, a copy of a Purpose Driven Life on my sister's desk, and went on with my life. I told her I honestly didn't notice, and blamed my eyes again for the mess. Thankfully she was THAT addicted to coffee so it didn't really take much for her attention to be diverted to somewhere else. Heh.

Another thing which has always been a problem with other people is how I speak almost inaudibly. The other day everytime I eat, people behind the counter would always give me extra rice when in fact I was asking for soup or sauce or please convert the plain rice in my mixed vegetables to bagoong rice please. And it's not helping that I get annoyed when people make me repeat what I say, especially if they say it like, "anoooo?" or "haaaa?" with that silly irritating expression on their faces.

My friends have been patient enough to keep quiet, or press the earpiece uncomfortably (not to mention painfully) to their ears, or make sure to sit near me when I'm talking to spare ourselves the hassle of me having to revert to my silent ice queen bitch mode all night.

But I won't always be talking with friends, and I won't always have people understand my little quirks right off the bat. And I come off as a deathly quiet ice queen bitch off even without doing anything anyway so what the heck.