yeah, without thinking, it was pouring rain and I had a mani/pedi appointment a few doors down. I was going to go through the drive through but I thought it would be faster if I went inside. Wrong choice. It was crowded, it was 11:30!! It is the Memorial month and the shufflers were getting out of the rain.
So I stood in the slow moving line and did not look around. Aargh, who is straight ahead at the pick up point? My sons old room mate. He sees me, waves, smiles, I smile back just knowing many other eyes are watching me. All of a sudden I hear a soft male voice say "Crmsicl"...Hi, how are you?"
Me: good, really good. Our faces seem inches away it took me a second to focus on him and realize that he was the COBE, a nice guy, not born in. He was instrumental in the fiasco that got us out of the club.
He has on his super nice guy demeaner and adds "you know the memorial is coming up on the 14th, we'd love to see you there, to have you come back".
I just looked at him deeply, I did not feel nervous as I might have been a couple years ago. I ananlyzed his cult motions the whole time. He had to have felt my energy. I did send him compassion in my thoughts, I knew where he was at. I actually never said any other words, in a way I was shunning him.
Oh well now we know we are checked off the list for a return visit they (and us) would rather avoid.
...OUTLAW