Sunny Skies. Shady People.

While sitting at a red light yesterday, I noticed a sign that said, "Littering is illegal. If you see littering taking place, please notify the cops."

This was an official city sign. It made me start chuckling. Not because it was funny; it take littering very seriously. I hate seeing people throw things out of their car windows or dropping things when they walk like the world is their personal trash heap.

I laughed because the government wants us to contact the police when we see littering, but the police barely respond to real crimes. I could just hear a dispatcher laughing at me if I was to report the black sedan that thew a McDonald's bag out of their sunroof. I once called the cops when my car got broken into and the one who answered the phone said, "and what do you want us to do about that?" I just hung up the phone on him. Fucking Bastard.

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So things were resolved this weekend. Ames invited me to hang out with her Saturday night, and she was hanging out with everyone, including Al. I didn't mind. I just wanted to go out and have a good time. We're all out, and I'm not ignoring him, but I'm not going out of my way to talk to him either. And he doesn't like that one bit because he likes to be the center of attention. So he decides to confront me in the middle of the bar. Asks me why I'm being mean to him, why I'm not talking to him, why I'm singling him out. I told him that I wasn't doing any of those things, but I just wasn't interested in talking about any of that stuff right then and we would talk later. So he stopped talking to me for the entire night.

When all the boys were getting ready to leave I told him that I would call him tomorrow and we would talk about everything. He said he wanted to talk about it that night. We got dropped off at my house and talked until about 5:00 am.

It was good for us. We got everything out, got everything off our chests. There were "I'm sorry"s and "I love you"s and "I really care about you"s and a little bit of crying. I really needed all of that to put things into perspective.

I think it saved our friendship.