WTF 2

Devil child and I were on our nightly walk. (Wish it would be our morning ritual instead but... another story.) We are minding our own business, I was trying to reach my "zen" space where I wake up and cannot remember what I was thinking or how I got to what I was thinking I am just being after a day of doing and I see two girls, and I mean girls because they could not have been any older than 15 if even, walking down the center of a two way street. I see a third girl walking along on the sidewalk. As I am crossing the interesection with one girl walking towards me in the intersection and the other two still walking down the middle of the street I hear above the noise of my ipod, "We like your dog." I replay what I think I hear in my head and say, "Yeah, thanks." When the girl right next to me now says, "We weren't talking about the one on the leash." One girl walking in the middle of the street repeats that and the third girl says, "I already said that." I continue walking, am completely taken by surprise and replay what I think I heard as I turn around to see them again. The road has curved by now and they are gone. I reply with a quiet, mainly to myself, "What the fuck?"
Seriously? Did these girls just call me a dog? Who the fuck says these things to a complete strange who did nothing but walk a street in the opposite direction as they were going? I mean beautiful is in the eye of the beholder of course. I know I am not fantastic to look at but a dog? I think I may be a few notches above that.
Wow. High school. How amazingly awful it has become. And how thankful I am to be completely past it. I could not forget their comment for the rest of my walk. I still, more than three hours later, am basically obsessing over it. And it means nothing. It doesn't hurt. I don't know them and they don't know me. I will forget it in a few days. But... WTF? Till next time.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it. ~Maurice Chevalier