surprises

over the weekend, two things surprised me. i'm not saying they're related...but think about it.

i saw 'hitch' with my little sister and was pleasantly surprised. yes, it was cute. sure, will smith has no sex appeal really but still, very amusing. and yes, a white man dances funny and a black man makes fun of him. but goddamn if that white man dancing around wasn't funny. yes, i know what you're saying, but lay off! it was good.

the second surprise wasn't so 'white man dancing badly'-funny. in all my time in my hometown lil' suburb of san diego called PQ, i have never really run into a crazy person. you know, the type of person you run into on the streets of los angeles, new york, or san francisco. the kind that just starts talking gibberish to you. or the kind that scares you as they yell in your face that they 'hate americans and why are all americans trying to be british and all americans should die.' you know, the good times that come with a big city. but this weekend i was in mervyn's in pq (yes, i know...but it's a long story and there's a reason) when this woman sort of caught my attention. she was looking at a purse and her eyes locked with mine so when she said, 'cute, isn't it?', i just said 'yes'. well, apparently that was my mistake. she then started rambling on. it took me a few minutes to realize that we weren't talking about purses. she was talking about somebody who had it hard and had to live on the streets and who knew what it was like to be alone. and that the maker of the purse (okay, that was probably my mistake) was old school and that he survived through the years. and then was talking about her son and what if her son wasn't married, so what? maybe he just hadn't found the right girl to have a baby with!!!
she ended up getting pretty aggressive at the end even though i thought, 'hey, it's cool if you're son isn't married yet". my little sister came over and i just whispered in her ear, 'get out of here' and off we went. a bit odd. the oddest part of course was that this woman looked like every other pq soccer mom i've ever run across. has pq started selling some crazy i didn't know about?