28th
tales from the laundromat
After going home sick from work, I was too tired and headachey to be awkward and uncomfortable with convenience store girl. She said she’d put Save Yourself into rotation around different times of the day in the store so different groups of people would hear it. I thought she was joking but I had a couple of people come out and comment ‘nice cd’. She’d been playing it while I was outside 10m down playing.
A 20-something guy who looked like he was from the internet came up to give me money and got as far as being right in front of me before realising there was no receptacle. He asked, I said no, he said, “Well. This is awkward then. Have this anyway.” and handed me a dollar. I laughed and thanked him, and he pottered off.
A pair of 16 year olds on longboards who’d heard the CD in the shop came out to talk afterwards. They asked about the band. Older bottle shop guy came out to listen. An older couple thanked me for playing. A woman in her mid-30’s driving a beige Kombi commented on the lack of a hat, but her compatriot was too wasted to understand that I’d just said I wasn’t, and slowly but surely balanced a 50 cent piece on top of my drink bottle.
The thing I love most is exchanging eye contact with passengers in cars driving past.
