FLUORESCENCE: SUPERSTRING THEORY: THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING:
EVERYTHING.
To begin, let us analyze a specific instant of passive aggressive behavior that can now only be described as "bizarre" and "unwarranted". A scintillating evening of snowfall has left the day to be fueled by hibernation, coffee, research at cafes, and spicy black bean burritos. Interestingly enough, the West Philadelphian spot of congregating anarchists was the place of choice for today's intellectual and societal activity/obligation. The Satellite Cafe, entered, you are bombarded by streams of body odor and anti-establishment synthesis. The gazes are bitter and protruding. The bodies are self-righteous, vegan, and judging. One cannot help but feel the menacing grip of contradictory anarchistic tendencies seep into the pores and cause the world to shift, or shit, rather, into a disconnected mush of a plane. (surface plane that is)
I digress. DIGRESSION.
I placed my bag down across from a friend at the kids table. Every other chair was occupied. Towards the counter, I speculated on some "WOMANHOOD" tea and a four seed cookie for the late mornings reading on John Cage. Upon returning, a small child in a dapper red jacket had seated himself near the table. I asked him if he wouldn't mind if I slid behind him with my things. He did not respond (out of fear and uncertainty?) Setting up my laptop, his mother approached me and with strong distaste and passive aggressive tones was obviously upset that I had seated myself behind her son. (No, I did not plan to entice him into a van with some candy or fuck him)
NOTE: THE FOLLOWING DIALOGUE IS A REINTERPRETATION OF ACTUAL EVENTS--AS ACCURATE AS POSSIBLE DESPITE THE INEVITABILITY OF MEMORY LAPSE OVER SPECIFICS.
Lady (not a lady): "Excuse me, what do you think you're doing?"
Me- look up in confusion."What do you mean?"
Lady: "my son was sitting there and i am very confused as to why you would sit there"
Me- "Oh, I didn't know"
Lady: "He was sitting there. It's really inappropriate that you would creep in behind him".
Me- "Oh, okay. Well, I can move"
Lady: "No no, no, I just find it really inappropriate what you just did"
Me- "Okay. Sure"
Lady proceeds to turn to her small child and say obtrusively so that all cafe visitors can hear "well, it looks like we'll have to set up our chess game on this chair here".
CONTINUE____AWKWARDNESS INCREASES.
soon....exponentially.
Lady: "I just want to apologize for the way I was speaking to you, but I just felt that what you did was very bizarre and if you had children you'd understand."
Me- "Okay. I didn't-"
Lady: (interrupting) I am apologizing but I thin it was really inappropriate and I was, again, finding it very bizarre what you did.
Small boy: BIZARRE?
Me- "Okay, maybe it was bizarre and maybe I do have a kid"
Lady: "you have a kid?"
Me- "No, but you assumed much abo-"
Lady: (INTERRUPTING again) It was just inappropriate, that's all I'm saying. You shouldn't sit here at the kids table and especially not intrude on my child's space"
Me- "okay"
Universally, we will probably face people like this on a daily, constant basis and so I see it of great importance to learn how best to handle situations like these. Disagreements between two level headed people can lead to very beautiful things. However, when one party is only speaking to and not listening, it seems doomed to failure.
When we are misunderstood in specific situations or by what we belief, how we live, what we do, what we choose to do in a days time, we must learn not to argue with folks who are walls. Folks unreceptive. It is like convincing a newborn baby the importance of Newton's laws of physics. Rather, you must change their diaper, adhere to their whinings, indulge their every fancy.
HOW WOULD YOU HAVE HANDLED THIS SITUATION>>>>?
QUANTUM PHYSICS_____________
the theory of everything.
I don't know if feelings exist.
Yours truly,
Planck's Constant
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