Sunday, August 29, 2010

An interesting character...

Almost like clockwork you can see a young fellow with his iPod walking our block several times daily.
He appears to be talking to himself, and so Hubby has nicknamed the boy, “Walkie-Talkie”.

None of the others on our street seems to know his point of origin from whence he came daily and so there is no known information about him, but he has become a neighborhood staple...
He seems to be in his own little world and I wonder on occasion why he walks?
It can’t be for his health or for a weight problem, because he smokes and is quite slender.

And it’s not like there is one set time, so my 'like clockwork' thought was not quite that accurate.
But he does circle our block several times throughout the day.
Walking jauntily, not running; I suspect perhaps he is listening to and singing with his music but it looks so odd his mouth moving with not being able to tell from our front window what he might be saying to himself.

And who in his right or even wrong mind would be out there rain, including lightening or shine with all the recent unbelievable heat waves of deadly triple digits?
He is an enigma who has been haunting this neighborhood for many months now.
Oh no, haunting perhaps sounds devious as if he were up to no good, and no he has never showed any signs of that.
His only non specific irregularly is that he is a mystery to all of us.
He never stops to rest that we can see as he goes past our nine foot picture window that’s why he’s so hard not to miss!
Even me with my limited eyesight; I glance at him in my left eye’s periphery as he is in it so many times a day!
And never ever has he stopped to chat that we have heard of.

The young man who more than likely does seem to be cared for and most likely is in his twenties has brown hair and usually has a baseball hat upon his head, with wrap around sun glasses appropriately on his nose and he wears different colored T-shirts throughout the day, so he stays clean; I can only imagine his reasoning for changing so often.
We have been tempted to turn around to follow him when we have passed him while driving in our car, but that seemed too invasive.
I suspect he will remain an oddity in our neighborhood for as long as he so desires.
You see the curiosity is not that he goes for a walk through our neighborhood, because many do, and some even twice a day, but “Walkie-Talkie” does it at least a half a dozen times a day, sometimes more, and on occasion he paces or at the very least changes direction right there in front of our home!
Now all you psychologists or psychiatrists out there are saying he has some disorder, the one that comes to mind is obsessive compulsive or he could even suffer from some psychosis or even just as well bulimia or anorexia? Who knows…

So far, though to date he appears to be harmless to us in the area, but at times I do worry about his safety being out in all kinds of weather and traffic; although he does seem to be unaware he must be or I am sure something unthinkable would have happened to him by now.
Amazingly no one has tried to speak directly to him.
Well, maybe the next time we go out Hubby or I could try to stop and speak to him, since we have so many questions unanswered and if he would be nicely forthcoming to our severe cases of nosiness!
Our neighbors now in their minds will be thinking of him as Walkie-Talkie too since Hubby has mentioned that’s who he thinks the young fellow is to all of them, in his mind that is… and he has told a few and they agreed that is a perfect name for him.

On that mysterious note of someday knowing, I do hope; I will wish you all a very happy night and to all count those blessings and we will too!

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