I went for a walk this afternoon. It was a shiny, warmish February day in the ATX. I managed to find no need for my hoodie in this weather, so I tied it around my waist, a practice I picked up on the playground of Manchester N.E.R.D. Elementary back in the day.
My house is a few blocks from a daycare center. As I was walking past it today, I observed the adult on duty having words with a small male charge. '"Stop picking on her so hard!" she said to the little boy. "You keep hurting her feelings." The small female charge was bawling her eyes out.
These kids couldn't have been a day over 3. They were cute and tiny and had extremely low centers of gravity. Little little kids, still babies even, being shits to each other. Humanity sucks.
On my walk I also encountered, on two separate occasions, small, squatty schnauzer-type dogs who went out of their respective ways to run to the fence and bark at me. One stupid little piece-of-shit dog was all the way on the other side of his yard, saw me quietly walking down the sidewalk, and booked it over to be an asshole at me. I dislike dogs for this reason.
There are at least 1500 people in the Austin metro area who would love to go out for gelato with me right now and my husband is not one of them.
Hmmprrffphffffff.