So everyday I’ve been getting up and that small feeling of dread comes over me. That feeling I haven’t had since May. I have to feed my neighbors hamster for the next week , right? No problem, just unlock the door go feed the hamster, play with it, lock up and go home. Takes about …. 6 minutes tops.
Well.
The neighbors haven’t completley left yet. Their two oldest sons (who are nice) are always there, one of them is a delinquent, the other graduated from a top college. The delinquent I’m pretty sure is not supposed to be there, he moved across town. So now I go over there, have to knock and feed a hamster, while they’re there, and it’s not like they disappear upstairs and tell me to let myself out. They’re always in the room next door, with two other wasted guys on the couch, and it’s like WHY ARE YOU HERE. YOU’RE GROWN UP AND BOTH OWN YOUR OWN APARTMENTS, LEAVE SO I CAN FEED THE HAMSTER WITHOUT BEING SELF CONSCIOUS AND WEIRD. See, the other thing is I have to play with the hamster. I can’t just feed it and leave, so it takes 10 minutes to get the thing into a ball so it can run around, and just my luck it runs straight to the living room right towards the wasted guy on the floor. Needless to say, I completely ignore that part of my “job” now. Get in feed the hamster, if they tell they’re parents I ignored half the things I was supposed to do. Fuck it, I don’t care. I’m extremely self-conscious and I can’t get rid of that part of me till I actually do, which will be in a year or two. Trust me, I know.