I’m going straight to hell:
In my office building there's a guy I see from time to time who has something wrong with his foot that makes him have to slightly drag it behind as he walks; as a fellow human being who knows a little something about agonizing & crippling pain in the various leg joints I've always felt a certain kind of (very mild, of course I'm comparing my plight to his, calm the fuck down everybody) kinship with him, and whenever I see him I try to throw a little Jedi Mind Trick of Empathy his way, no matter how ridiculous a thing that is.
The other day everybody in my office was gathered in the open thruway for our monthly "hey how's everybody's doing and by that I mean who's the most awesome???" meeting; someone had the funny idea that we should break out in wild applause for the next person who comes through the door and you're goddam right I couldn't stop myself from thinking hey wouldn’t it be hilarious if the guy with the foot came through the door right now?
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