Intentions

Walking around with Bella late at night, it can be hard to discern the intentions of people. I got paranoid the other night, imagining two people were following us, but our paths eventually diverged. Later, two young men sitting in a pickup truck shouted out in relief as we passed by: "Oh, you're carrying a pooper scooper! We thought it was a machine gun!"

Last night, Bella and I arrived at a street corner just as two men in conversation approached. We froze, fearful of alarming them by our unexpected close proximity. "Complacency and apathy, complacency and apathy" one man said. Seeing us standing in the shadows, the man turned towards me and said, "What do YOU think? Complacency or apathy?" I replied, "Complacency is the worst."