User:Celundin/sandbox


 * The name of the subject mentioned has been changed for his sake.

This isn't as much a recollection on a recent interaction, but more so an examination of multiple interactions that I have with my housemate, Bryan, on a regular basis. He's a nice guy and doesn't ever mean any harm, but can often be quite irritating. He behaves in pretty interesting ways, with the way he talks and acts in front of different groups of people. At our fraternity house, he walks with a bit of a swagger in his step, and smiles a lot when he enters a room. He seems to be putting on this sort of disguise as the cool guy who's into 80's culture, like mullets and Lethal Weapon. At home, he has a similar demeanor, but in a more subtle way. The thing is, he's lived with all girls the whole time he's been in college and he's really excited to finally live with guys. This means he comes into my room sometimes and brings his movie collection with him and walks me through childhood stories of watching every copy of Predator he owns back to back (there's five), and his aspiration to actually grow out his hair into a mullet. He does this thing when he hears something cool where he runs his hands over his head and then covers his mouth with praying hands to collect himself before he bursts with joy and things to say. He refers to me as "buddy" a lot, which is odd because he's a peer. It's kinda of an ego thing. He doesn't have interesting taste in music and often thinks what he listens to is "hip", or different, or unpopular, but it's actually quite well known, or not cool. Our conversations are usually pretty uniform, in that they are normally no longer than thirty seconds in length, or consisting of more than eight words out of my mouth per instance. There's just never much to say. Bryan's a interesting character, although he quite the opposite of interesting. Most of the time, after an interaction with him I go back and figure out the verbal and nonverbal quirks he has and why each one exists.

Gotta go, I think he needs help using the oven, or something.