GOOD MORNING CHARLIE

You know what I hate?
When people smile at strangers in public.
It is possibly the most awkward moment anyone can create for themselves, I say with a shaking of the fist, and thats a big call, because there are a lot of awkward moments out there waiting to be created.

Firstly, (yes I'm paragraphing this thought) its ridiculously uncomfortable if you do it yourself, and get no response or just a confused head nod.
And this makes it particularly awful, because, for me at least, the only time I do participate in the 'random smiling at strangers' thing is when I'm in a strange, good mood and a half and I'm really not thinking straight because I'm just too hoppin on joy.
So I end up going from like, here *gestures with hand* in happiness, all the way down to like, here *gestures with hand again,* just because some tool wont smile back at me, or he does smile back but in a way that says, 'why the fuck are you smiling at me, punk? I don't need your smiles. I have friends of my own to smile with. Where are your friends? Huh? I don't see them anywhere. Hiding are they? *merciless laugh.*
And then you're so cut up by being rejected and now having a hugely awkward situtation with one random individual, you forget why you were even happy and end up doing something stupid, like walking into a pole or a nearby obese man drinking coffee.

The other awkward half of this situation is when you're the one being smiled at. For me, this comes as such a general shock, and instills such confusion in me as to why someone would actually want to smile at my face, I end up having an uncomfortably delayed response in 'smile back' time and end up smiling at someone just as they have walked past, so I end up accidentally smiling at, say, a pole, or a nearby obese man drinking coffee.
I just can't seem to get the timing right so that I actually catch some of their face before they leave after smiling at me, because it turns out to be weirdly difficult for me to get over the shock of being smiled at and return their smile with an instant smile that isn't merged in with some sort of grimace or confused eye twitch.

Anyway. Maybe this is just me. And honestly, I've woken up way to early. Why so early? And why, I might ask, am I blogging?