SOMETIMES YOU GOTTA LISTEN TO YOUR HEART AND JUST SCREAM “SLAAAAAAYYYYYEEEERRRR!!!”
There’s a facebook group that I used to see all the time called “BLACK PEOPLE WHO SMILE AT OTHER BLACK PEOPLE WHEN YOU SEE THEM ON CAMPUS”
It may be a shock to you, but… I don’t belong to this group. However, I can recognize that feeling of seeing a stranger and feeling a brief connection to them because of an interest or similarity that seems to be readily apparent because of their appearance. In college, on the rare occasion that I would see someone on campus with, say, a Pantera shirt on I would get a warm fuzzy feeling in my heart for a minute. That “Holy shit, a metalhead besides ME!” feeling. I think you get it.
Well, usually I get the little heart flutter, get over it and get on with my day. Sometimes I’ll think I’m ballsy enough to say something to the person, but I almost never do. But yesterday I decided not to hold back, and without a blink of my long black eyelashes I rolled down the car window to yell “SLAAAAYYYYEEEERRRR!!!” and flash the horns at a girl passing by in a Slayer (duh) t-shirt and denim miniskirt. It was on one of the most hipster streets in Syracuse and I just couldn’t help myself. And behold, she returned the battle cry.
Have you ever done this? I’m sure that yelling at a stranger doesn’t always end up in your favor, but you never know who you’re gonna meet? Am I right?
-Julia
