Observations and Bad News

I had to send my car in to the body shop (finally) so that they could make it beautiful/sexy/new-ish, but mom had to rush to a meeting so I was stuck near Mountain View all day. Luckily mom let me have the remaining car after she went to work, so I drove around in a hot new lexus with windows down and music blaring. I definitely got some appraising looks (though I'd rather not mention from who for some of them..)

I went to a movie, My Best Friend's Girl. Recently, Palash Neil and I had watched the movie Good Luck Chuck, the two are very similar. Definitely hilarious. However, I was the ONLY person in a 200 person theatre...I had never felt so utterly alone before in my life...

I spent the rest of the day at Toy's "R" Us (don't judge me, its a magical place...). While I was in the isle with all the transformers toys (did you all know that there's a new tv shows called transformers animated? its butchering everything transformer was! now its all anime-ish and babyish ugh.) and all the starwars toys (i find it ridiculous that there are transformer crossovers where a gigantic death star transforms into some demented looking darth vader, and some weird jet transforms into some ridiculous rendition of iron man but there isn't any transformer where the batmobile Tumbler turns into an autobot!?)

I witnessed this rather tired businessman taking this rather hyper 9 year old kid with him down the aisle. The kid was very excited, but didn't know why he was there apparently, it seemed he didn't get toys very often. "Go ahead, you can get whatever you want, you got the grades i wanted" The kid literally screamed with happiness, picked up the biggest optimus prime box he could (60 bucks could you believe it?). The dad looked at the price, winced, glanced at his kid's eager face, sighed and said ok. They headed off to the register, the kid bouncing, the dad trudging. It was (dare i say it?) rather cute, and brought a smile to my face.

Next I saw this ridiculously dressed up lady with a very garish plastic looking face-lift and a very large rac..well, she looked like the typical rich snob-mom...walking with this whining brat of a daughter (she was high-school age) towards to bikes in the back. Apparently since the daughter's boyfriend was two streets over, she found the idea of taking an electric scooter over to his house whenever she pleased to be rather story-book-romance-ish. The mom dropped what looks like 300 bucks on a blue electric scooter, and walked out. I was slightly flabbergasted. An interesting day, to be sure.

While i was hanging out in the aisle with legos, an indian couple walked by. They were talking in rapid tamil. Soon enough the wife said (still in tamil) "Look at that guy over there, (she was talking about me) doesn't even have his wife with him when he's shopping for his kids (my ears started to burn) what are indians coming to nowadays? He's probably married to some american bimbo (not the actual word, but almost the same thing) who's just leeching off their money while the kid suffers." I left the aisle after that, walked around the store, bought my baby cousin a giant Megatron for his birthday in november.

A little while later i walked past the couple on their way out, the wife was asking where the bathroom was, i said "it's in the back behind the bikes. By the way, i'm 18" in tamil. they stared at me with blank stares. It felt rather good.

Came home to find out that my only remaining grandma is dying, so it seems i'll be gone this entire christmas break. for those of you i won't see before christmas break, i guess i'll see you in spring.