Quote of the day by shaks : all boys need a girlfriend that isn't their sister

i tell you! i have odd weekends!

has anyone ever seen somebody somwhere and then all of a sudden, that person is everywhere? when we were at fuel cafe last friday... or was it thursday? ... anyhoo, there was a guy who i remember seeing around campus a while back. and then about 2 days later, i saw him walking around a mall. and then 2 days later we saw each other coming out of the postgrad department on campus. and then yesterday he came into my book store to find out about a book he ordered. and so shaks and i call him omnipresent boy # 2 (omnipresent boy #1 is actually OB # 1a and OB # 1b because it turned out he was omnipresent because there were two guys who looked exactly the same.) and he can't think i'm stalking him because he came to my place of employment... right... right?!?!? it bugs me when people might get the very wrong assumption that i'm a stalker or something. it's just plain wrong!

And then yesterday i had a shakti psycho-johnny moment. you see, a little while back, there was this dude called johnny who was in love with shaks. he came from the DRC and he wanted shakti to marry him. no. seriously ... he gave her stuff including a plastic rose (wrapped up in pretty paper), a half drunk bottle of Danau juice and a card, that when opened, played a creeeepy version of Fur Elise. inside this card were some pieces of paper that said "i kiss you, i marry you" and "i love you, i marry you" written all over them.) in the card he had written something along the lines of how he was from the Congo and has a lovely family there and how he travelled everywhere on public transportation to see her. it was sooooo funny! ;) and equally as creepy-ass, but still hysterical

not so much yesterday. mine wasn't as bad as poor old shaks, she takes the cake, but it was still weird! so some dude (you know the type : big, bald, angry looking, probably about 40/45) comes up to me and i (being the brilliant custome service person i am) smile winningly and say "can i help you, Sir?" and so he says, "Are you married?" so i say, "ummmm... no" because i'm not and he said , "good. then this is for you." and hands me a gift wrapped package (yellow rose gift wrap) and says "a present for a pretty lady". so i wait for tommy to finish helping his customer and i make him take me to the back of the store (into the office) and tell him the story and he CANS for like 10 minutes and i make him open it. and it was ... ok for you who know me, you'll get the irony of this... a copy of the freshly ground cd. i hate freshly ground. no, really. they grate me. so tommy and i rolled around on the floor for a little while.

so now - what do i do? shaks and tom think i should give it back, but how do you do that? like if it was like a diamond or something, i understand. and i would feel soooo rude. but on the other hand, he did pay 100 bucks for it and i wouldn't want him to think that by accepting it i'm accepting other stuff too ... help! all you wise people out there!