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[drunktexting]

the drill, you know it

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[littlepriest]

[1/2] There are better places to die in you know.

[2/2] It's fine. Did something happen, more than seeing one too many 'live laugh love' signs?

[wontgraham]

[1/2] i think it was the OCD: Obsessive Christmas Disorder sweaters on the discount rack that were the final blow to my and humanity's dignity, honestly

[2/2] thought i saw something in one of the aisles. i'm pretty sure i was wrong, since no one else saw it, but i didn't have that revelation until i had tracked it to the furniture aisle.

just glad i didn't have my gun on me today.

[littlepriest]

[1/1] Not entirely surprised that there is now a market in trivializing mental disorders, to be honest.

[2/2] Well now that you put it that way, I'm glad you didn't have your gun on you also.

Not getting much sleep lately, I take it? Were you awake the whole time, or was this an extreme bout of sleepwalking?

[wontgraham]

[1/2] there always has been. something about seeing it under fluorescent lights in 2017 is just enough to really get under my skin, though. carelessly tossing it aside as a punchline is a level of apathy that tastes even worse than actual hatred.

[2/2; long pause] i don't know if i was awake or not. i keep snatching bits of memory back from it, like a loose thread on a nail. it's just as ragged and uneven, too.

[littlepriest]

[1/2] Funny how fucking numb we make ourselves to everything in the name of "normalizing" the things we stigmatize; and in the process we mistreat the taboos and the concepts and tell ourselves we're being understanding, when in reality that girl in the convenience store wearing a 'cute but psycho' shirt doesn't even understand something like her grandparents' schizophrenia. People with severe mental illness don't know they're mentally ill enough to announce it to anyone. But I digress.

[2/2] Do you remember how you got there? My eventual point intends to lead to me asking if you need a ride out of there before someone robs you at knifepoint.

[wontgraham]

[1/2] glamorizing it in the name of normalizing, all of it done for profit anyway. sounds about right.

did i ever tell you how jack and i met, actually? related story

[2/2] i definitely drove, i remember heading out for errands. but if we're skipping ahead to you wondering if im safe for the return trip, id actually appreciate a lift, if youre not too busy. if my car's up on cinder blocks tomorrow morning i don't really give a shit at this point

[littlepriest]

[1/2] No, you haven't. I'm concerned, given the relation of subject matter.

[2/2] I'm not busy. I'll be about half an hour. I can call in a favor with the station's tow truck guy. Up on cinder blocks might be the least of your problems.

[wontgraham]

[1/2] i approached him in 2008 at the opening of the fbi's 'evil minds research museum' which they were placing in the basement of the academy. told him i didn't really care for the name.

didn't really see him again except in passing until he asked me to consult for him on a case.

[2/2] i appreciate it. the ride and the tow.

uh, i'll probably just wait out front. red pickup truck, right?

[littlepriest]

[1/2] You're telling me that's an actual name that a board of people in the bureau agreed on? Not some unfortunate nickname it picked up along the way? I can see why that didn't agree with you.

[2/2] Yeah. If you can text me the make, model, and license plate, I can have your car towed back to your place.

[wontgraham]

[1/2] nope. actual name. in the basement of the building i work in. i wasn't amused.

[2/2] volvo c70, license plate vbk-3778.

ill pass you gas $. thanks for this