Music blaring, people talking/ dancing/ singing/ drinking all around you, and you stop to take a look a look around. Or at least that's what I did on Friday night.
The guy standing in the corner, that's the one you want to watch FOR SURE. This is often the anti-social nerd at the party who has been finally dragged into going out by roommates. It can be the guy in a particularly taxing fight with his girlfriend. This is also sometimes the person who has his own agenda apart from the party, like the party is some sort of cover for his actual doings.
On this night, a young man was particularly interesting because he had a magic disappearing act. Now, of course, I wasn't watching the whole time, I'm not an anti-social stalker. So I don't know how many times he left, or how many times he came back. I just saw the one time where he left his cozy corner, walked out the front door (probably across the street to his house) and came back looking particularly dazed and blissfully red-eyed. It's pretty obvious why he left this time!
His first move in this new state of mind: spices. Yes, that's right he pretty much bee-lined to the magnetic spices on my refrigerator and started to pour tiny bits from each container into a little pile on the counter. He wasn't making a huge mess, so I let him at it. So after his home made totally awesome spice mix was finished, he poured it into a baggie (not the same that held his weed, although that could have been interesting) and went outside. Once outside, he finds a girl that has been here about the same amount of time as he (and looks pissed), says something to her, and hands her the baggie. She looks at it, smiles, and gives him a massive hug.
Now I'm thinking to myself: "HAHAHAHA what the hell just happened with these two?!" So let's digest...
He's been very inverted the entire night, disappearing a few times. To be honest, no idea what she's been up to but she has been socializing with everyone. I believe they came at or around the same time, but either way it is obvious from this exchange that they know each other.
First Question: Do the spices have some sort of meaning between these two, or are they just a random act of weirdness that she loves? Well, my romantic self is going to say that the spices have something to do with a fight they had. She uses too many spices in a dish? He mocks her for it? It's not so funny to her because she's cooking for him? Sure, let's go with that.
Now he's given her a baggie of all the spices he can find combined. Cute!
Well, if that is their story. But who knows? All I know is that there is one.
