sorcyress | Faith in humanity? Check!

So, wha' ha-happened is.¹

I am in Harvard, at the Brattle Theatre. It's about eleven thirty, 'leven forty-five, and the thing I was watching just got out. I've parted ways with my friends, and am walking back home.

Walking past the bank, I see two orchids lying under a tree. They look lonely and abandoned, so I pick them up (I never pick flowers for myself, but I'm not against the ones that someone else severed from their stems) and determine to take them home with me, and put them somewhere pretty.

As I'm crossing Church Street, I get stopped by a man. He looks to be about in his forties or fifties, and friendly enough, so I do stop, and take my headphones out.

He beckons to me, at my labcoat and hat with the goggles. "I just wanted to say, that you look like a lab assistant and you're probably working on nuclear science or something!" he explains, and I smile and laugh in response.

"Medicine, actually" (since one of the rules of the labcoat is I have to make up new occupations and reasons every time a stranger asks.²)

"Medicine, okay, wonderful! I just wanted to say that seeing you out in your labcoat really makes my night!"

"Thank you!" I am struck dumb with happiness. We each take a step to pass each other, when the obviousness of the situation strikes me.

"Would you like an orchid?" I ask, "I just found them --I don't know why, maybe it was so I could give one to you!"

His face absolutely lit up as he took one from my outstretched hand. He smelled it, and smiled, "I don't think anyone's ever done something so nice for me before!" He then drew me to the sidewalk, out of the road. "Now I have something for you, too.

"I'm a singer, it's what I've been doing for the past thirty years singing in Harvard Square, and so, I'd like to sing you a song." And so, standing there on the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Church Street, he did, singing me something short and sweet.

"Thank you," is all I can think to say in response, to this really quite incredible gift, and smile. "You have an awesome night."

"You too!" he calls, and we really do part ways, him towards the square proper, and me back up towards Porter. I pop my headphones in and laugh as Vienna croons 'Between' at me.

"Not tonight," I say, and I change tonight. Vienna's good for a lot of moods, but right now? Right now the best way to sum it up is absolutely that 'I Feel Fantastic'³.

(And what does it say that one of my first thoughts was "that was an awesome experience...I feel like it's the sort of story Rach would tell!")

~Sor
MOOP!

1: There's a lovely girl called Megan, who both Alys and I worked with when we worked faire. This is one of her sayings, that I picked up and use occasionally. Sortof a different variant on "So no shit, there we were..."

2: Did you know you can just BUY lab coats?

3: By JoCo. Listen here