I can’t believe my college gave me a month and a half, with no work, at home. So, of course, now I spend an average of three and a half minutes conscious at home (just enough to go to the bathroom and get money) and go out with my friends.
On one such outing (typing “on one” is really cool. Go ahead, try it. Ononeonone) with Rayme and Amanda, we noticed an elderly couple engaged in an argument surrounding five dollars. We noticed it because they were each throwing a fit and attracting attention from everybody, but that’s beside the point. They argued for an abnormally large amount of time before leaving in a stale mate.
The next day, I went to lunch with Rayme and Amanda again. Similar outing, similar people, different restaurant. We were all shocked to see that, twice in a row, we chose to eat lunch at the same restaurant as the elderly couple. I’d like to believe this is a coincidence, but the movie “Magnolia” spent three and a half hours trying to convince me that it wasn’t. Anyway, the old people were no longer arguing, as we half expected them to be, but that didn’t stop us from pointing out to each other (rather loudly) that our meal cost about five dollars.
The next night, I went to a movie with a completely different person. I saw the old couple again! Three days in a row! What are the chances of that happening unplanned?
And the last thing I heard the man say before he went into the theater was, “And here’s your five dollars.”
The Past Stranger Than Fictions
Why Not? I'm nice, really!
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