bafflement

one of the many glamorous responsibilities i have is keeping the parking lot clear of refuse. beer bottles, downed tree limbs - you name it, i pick it up. you get the idea. i am trusting that you get the idea.

anyway, yesterday while i was out there, i noticed a man sitting in a little red geo. this would be perfectly ordinary of course (sitting in one's car is a totally unremarkable activity) except for one thing, that thing being that instead of exiting his car upon arrival in the theater parking lot, he continued to sit in it. i was only outside for half an hour, but he sat there the entire time. he didn't have anything to read. he was not playing music. the windows were up and his motor was off, so the ac must've been as well.

at first i thought he might be waiting for a movie to start, but i discarded that because we have a cozy bar inside with chairs and couches and his car must have been extremely uncomfortable (it was 90 degrees and quite humid at the time). well, after i finished up and went inside, i mentioned there was a guy sitting in the parking lot to one of the servers and she described him down to the white reed richards wings in his hair. it seems this guy is there all the time. in fact, when i went out to clear the lot in the evening (people love dumping trash outside the theater), he was still there. stranger still, there were others: a lady in a green hatchback, a middle-aged guy sitting in his midlife crisis, both of them behaving just like the first man. all three stayed in their cars while i was cleaning, but were gone when i left at the end of the night.

no one at work seems to have an explanation for this behavior. so i call on you, my loyal reader(s), to explain these people's deal.

because it baffles the hell out of me.