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hidden signs I woke Saturday night at quarter to eight and briefly thought that I might have slept through the night and into the next day. The alarm was set, but for just a moment I thought that it was Sunday morning and no one from work had called me. I guess that I could call this a side effect of working third shift, where time holds very little meaning for me and days blur into one another. Work ended quietly enough with some interesting conversations with coworkers to pass the time. One woman said that I couldn't part my hair down the middle anymore. She said that it was a sign that I did drugs. It seems that this is what our boss was taught to believe at sometime when he was in the military. I had never heard of anything like that before, but it certainly sounds like something the military might say. I imagine that they have a way of breaking most people down into behavioral categories by how they dress and act. Her telling me this piece of information took me by surprise. It made me wonder if she thought I did in fact smoke pot, which I haven't since last year. If it does comes out in conversation with someone and I think that they won't react too negatively, I won't deny the fact that I have smoked in the past. I don't have a problem with it. It wasn't as though it was a daily event for me or that I had a collection of bongs on my dresser. Smoking pot was something that I did after high school and through part of college and there is nothing that I can do to change that fact. It's been a long time since someone told me that they thought that I did drugs, but I still remember when it started years ago. People first started to think this about me back when I was in high school. I was told that it was the way my eyes looked with their sleepy appearance. The funny part was that it wasn't true until a few years later. |