A revelation of sorts

I like to make strange comments to people in passing, just for the inward pleasure that I receive from it. No one may think it is funny or even get why I would do such a thing but I always smile, if not outwardly, on the inside. This is typically for the benefit of a group and we always get a cheap laugh out of it.

An example might be like when a friend of mine that is a teacher, his wife, and I were exiting the Great Escape movie theater one Friday night. As we saw a group of young adolescents approaching in the distance he exclaimed, "Oh no there are some of my students." So I could not let this opportunity to make such a comment pass by, and as our groups exchanged places on the sidewalk I put my hand on a fellow's chest and said, "How you doing young son?" Obviously my friend was horrified and the high school kids gave me a strange look. Later that week at school that student told my friend, "Your friend was weird." Excellent.

So yesterday as I was leaving the bank I saw a girl with a Silver Creek sweatshirt on talking on her cell phone and simply gave her a "Go Silver Creek #1!" Again she looked at me as if I were an alien of some sorts.

Fast forward a few hours and I am out running trying to stay fit. From behind me I hear "Citizens arrest, citizens arrest...for going more than 20 miles an hour on the sidewalk, whew!" Some old guy in a beat up Ford Ranger. I instantly think, what an idiot...and then it dawns on me...that is me in like 30 years. So at that moment I had to decide if I thought that guy was really really funny or if it is time for me to change my ways.