monsters

you know how when you're walking down the sidewalk and it's a coincidence and the group of people you just passed start whispering and then laughing? and you have to tell yourself like you did when you were a kid afraid of the dark that it's just your imagination, there's no such thing as monsters. and you kind of talk yourself down because that's what grown ups do. and eventually you stop getting get freaked out in the first place. that just happened to me on the way home from work today.