If I don’t go out the weirdos come to me

I think I wrote about weird girl before. She lives in my apartment building. I think she has some kind of cognitive disability or memory loss. Way back when I first moved in my parents were helping me. Weird girl held the door open for my Mom. So my Mom thanked her and weird girl for whatever reason says to my Mom "I wasn’t hitting on you." My mom and I look at each other as if to say wtf?

And that is when she earned the nickname. She smokes and it is a non smoking building, so she does it outside. So I would talk to her every once in a while. Just smalltalk. Earlier in the week I had noticed some envelopes in the recycle bin (or it may just be a garbage container.) One was addressed to her, a power bill. I thought she probably didn’t want it to go in the garbage. So I put it by her mailbox. Every day I have checked the mail this week it has still been there.

So a while ago I was making my dinner. Hashbrowns with garlic butter and a leftover burger. There was knocking on my door. I abhor people coming over unnanounced. So I don’t answer. The knocking continues, I still don’t answer. After a while I figure the person is gone. So I open the door. Weird girl is on the other side.

She says "I don’t know the guys name but you know that guy with the shaved head?" The only guy who matches that description is Dimitri who was obsessed with me long ago. He has a girlfriend but I think she is going to tell me something serious. So I say "yeah what about him?" Then she asks if I have any hoots (marijuana.) I tell her I don’t do it. Then she said she had thought my place was Dimitri’s suite.

I tell her no and then say a bill of hers had been thrown out so I put it by her mailbox. She says about the bill being thrown out "That is bullshit." I tell her which suite is Dimitri’s. Then she tells me how he had gone up to her place at some point to try to get some pot. I just say "Oh." Then she is begging me not to tell anyone. She is freaked I will get her thrown out.

Then she is calling me darling and saying how I am so sweet. She asks how long I have lived here. Even though I already met her a bunch of times. And one of those times she said how the price of housing is so high because of all the immigrants who moved here. She says how maybe she will come downstairs later so we can hang out. My mind races. I tell her that I like to spend my time alone after work. I say something about Karl just in case she is bi or a lesbian. Then I say if I see her outside having a smoke I will talk to her. I hope I was clear enough about not wanting her to come over.

I went to some garage sales today. I bought a book of ghost stories. I also bought some big dream catchers. They have pictures drawn on suide. They aren’t bad but I’m not sure if I like them. One is a wolf on a mountain. The other a Buffalo skull. At one of the places a girl was selling a laptop for $40. Just because it didn’t have a battery. If I had the money I would have bought it to resell on kijiji. I picked up a Louis Vuitton knockoff purse. One side of the strap was off. The girl said someone in one of the mall stores said they could fix it for $12. Then she added she broke it when she threw it at her boyfriend’s head. So wrong but it made me laugh. Her Mom who was sitting beside her said something to her. The girl said "well its true."