Occasionally, I meet some pretty weird people. Usually it's at my AA group but once in awhile it's somewhere in "real" life. Yesterday I met a strange woman at a Marina gas station. Probably in her late 40's and dressed in a fancy black dress with a black sun visor and flip flops, lots of make-up and lots of jewelery, she was, I think, either completely out of her mind or high on drugs. (it was around 11 am, I think maybe she was still wearing last night's clothes?)
We had to wait around for the guy running the place to get back from an errand and we had no choice but to make small talk with this woman, it was either that or ignore her, which is what I would have preferred. At first she wasn't that interested in us, she was too busy hitting on the owner of the HUGE yacht parked in the slip beside us. Since he was emptying his septic waste he couldn't get away from her. Her conversation made little since, she did a lot of mumbling and talked pretty much non-stop, asking a lot of personal questions about the cost of his boat and where he lived, that type of stuff. She was even bold enough to ask him to take her out in his boat, he politely refused, saying "maybe next time". After he escaped, she turned to me and started talking about aloe vera of all things, advising me that I really needed to start drinking it for my health.
It was one of those situations where you wished something would happen to distract the person from you so you could get away. Unfortunately we needed gas (D wouldn't listen to me when I suggested stopping for gas on the way to the lake, confident we had plenty), so I was stuck talking to her. I'm nothing if not southern polite so I did my best to make conversation with her. I'm sure it would have been obvious to a normal person that I'd rather have just been left alone but I did my best.
Finally the guy came back and opened the store, when we finally got away she was talking to him, poor man.
I know there are barflies who sit in bars waiting to be picked up, are there marina flies, too?
