So I’ve been in a book shop today and happened to talk to a guy who looked a lot like Ace. He was using one of those terminals to look up books and he was staring at it for a while and I told him he could get it to print out a paper with directions to the right shelf and he said that he could just remember that and I thought it was pretty cool because it’s about 5 two digit numbers and I can’t remember stuff like that at all unless I’m trying really hard.

He was nice and I was trying not to be awkward (I’m just generally awkward with all people I don’t know well) but he is probably sick of people being awkward around him and it’s hard both to look at a person and also not seem like you’re staring because I didn’t know if he was more annoyed by people staring or people not looking at him at all.

And there’s also that heartless writing part of my brain that was thinking “I wish it wasn’t totally inappropriate to ask what’s up with him because then I could look it up in wikipedia and draw it accurately.”

You know how sometimes there are people you have to interact with pretty often and you can’t help thinking “man, I wish I didn’t have to be near you and I wish I didn’t know you that well”? And then there are people you meet randomly and you think “I wish I knew you better, I wish we could maybe be friends” but it just never happens. He seemed nice (not because he looked like Ace, just the way he talked and remembered that big number). And he was looking up some English textbook on that terminal. We could totally drink coffee and talk about idioms or something but it just doesn’t happen because awkward people don’t randomly make friends in a book shop (unless it’s a hollywood movie).

I really doubt you'll read this but I think you're cool. :)