Current mood:

depressed

Misery loves company
Or so they say. I have been really miserable today, having a lot of pain. Besides that, not going outside has made me depressed and irritable. I'm afraid I took it out on the Boyo. Well, in a way he deserved it.
The Torchlight Parade runs down Fourth Avenue where my apartment is every year. Yeah, it's supposed to be fun. I just love having 300,000 strangers in my front yard. Every year we reserve places out front to sit, to keep from being crowded out by interlopers. And I guess there were some security concerns last year, because this year we were notified that two security guards would be checking ID of all who came in the building.
Since the Boyo was going to watch the Parade with me, I called him in the morning to tell him of the ID requirements. And so, he promptly forgot his ID. OK, Dumb. You don't go anywhere in the present police state without ID. And that threatened to keep him out of my building. I didn't take this well, especially since he decided since he couldn't come to my house, he would go to his friend Jim's. And I screamed at him about it. He said "But the idea was to watch the parade, wasn't it?" I had to break his bubble and inform him that no woman counts being in the midst of hordes of people as time spent together. Well, anyway, I wanted a little face time.
He came over to watch the parade, and bought me ice cream, a popsicle, and a blow-up pink crayon. Which, by the way, I know he can't afford. That's not what I wanted, I wanted face time.
Well, the best laid plans of mice and men go awry, and so did the plan to keep the riff-raff, including the ID-less Boyo out of the building. Right at the end of the parade, a gang fight broke on the sidewalk in front of the building, distracting one of the security guards, and overwhelming the other one with people streaming into the building carrying chairs and trying to get out of the way of the fight. So I got a little face time with the Boyo after all. Nothing else, he had to be up early next day. Phooey!!