More observations

(in particular, those involving county police officers)

Today I was out and about. Here are some observations that I had today. One observation was when I was on the bus, there was a lady also there who had white colored hair but didn't look that old. It was kind of like Anderson but this lady wasn't good looking like Anderson is. Also, this lady's teeth looked kind of like they weren't securely in her mouth very well. For some reason that's just how I feel like they looked. They didn't quite look right. 

Also, I have taken issue with some people in some of my classes. I am annoyed by the fact that they come across to me as know it alls. Which perhaps is hypocritical of me because I think that in other classes I may have come across that way to other people, but still. Also, it annoys me that the one middle aged man in one of my classes can't type properly. It just gets on my nerves. It can't be that hard to learn how to type properly. If I were the professor, I would mention to this man that he should learn how to type properly. For some reason the fact that he can't annoys me a decent amount. A decent amount, enough so that I have ended up writing about it on here. 

Now, on to a positive observation. Today, I was walking in front of a store and there was a police officer walking in the other direction carrying a bag of stuff he bought. I looked at him and maybe I looked at him a little too long or maybe it was just his natural reaction to passing people on the sidewalk in public, but he smiled at me a little bit and I was pleased and I attempted to smile back at him once I noticed that he had done that. I was quite pleased. I wonder if he usually smiles at people when he's out and about or if he only did it because I was looking at him. It was kind of like the time when I was on vacation and in the hotel getting breakfast and there was a guy who looked like the guy with the eyelashes and because of that I was looking at him and I guess I was looking at him too much and he noticed and he smiled at me. In any case, recently I had been thinking about how there are police officers out there who are bad apples and hopefully I don't have the misfortune to have an unpleasant encounter with one of those officers. The fact that the one I saw today smiled at me gives me the impression/assumption that he's not a bad apple, but who knows. I was pleased about that occurrence. I was looking at his name on his uniform and he had the initials of a singer that I like as well as a different last name. I guess the initials are there to differentiate him from other officers who have the same last name? I'm not sure. I have a little bit of a fascination with law enforcement stuff (probably something to do with the murder/Law and Order/etc interests) so I keep a bit of a mental remembering of the encounters/observations of the county police officers that I have. So far, here is a little list:

• the school police officer from middle school (so long ago!), Officer Larson (Larsen??) I'm not sure if he's still at that school or if he has gotten a different assignment.
• the school police officer at the high school I went to, who is still there (and left handed) as I mentioned in a previous post. Also, when I went to school there one day I asked him about all the equipment that he had. 
• a police officer I encountered directing traffic while I was at a shopping center, whose name I did not see because he had a reflective vest on which covered his name tag, but he was tall and had long legs and gray eyes and I asked him about how he felt about directing traffic (a question I have asked other police officers too in the past, but not in this county). He said that for work sometimes you have to do things that aren't the most enjoyable but you're still getting paid the same, so.. that was the general idea of his answer.
• a police officer I saw in Chipotle who had a nice figure. He was kind of short but he had a nice figure. I did not see his name. 
• another police officer I saw in Chipotle who was eating by himself. His name was Officer Berry which I read off of his name tag. I did not talk to him, but I wondered if he was related to another person I knew of with the same last name.
• other assorted police officers I saw in the same Chipotle, but do not remember specifically - it happens to be right near the police station so it's not surprising to see them there.
• the police officer from today who smiled at me.
• police officers I saw at Walmart near the doors during the holiday season. The year before last, when I saw them, the following night I had an unpleasant dream where police officers grabbed me. They were not county police however because the uniforms weren't right.

Those are all the ones that come to mind at the moment. It's probably weird that I keep a mental list of these things, but I do. Also, I think the officer who smiled at me today was a nice contrast to that one time in Ocean City when a police officer on a bike was riding down the street as we were putting things in the car (it was a neighborhood street without a lot of traffic) and he didn't even say hi or wave or anything. I think he should have done something friendly like that for the sake of maintaining a positive relationship/impression with the general public. Regardless. Ooh. I just had a thought. I may in the future be going to NYC. And perhaps then I will see some real life NYPD officers. That would be kind of cool. Apparently some may pose for pictures, because I remember last year my psychology teacher showed us a picture of her with some NYPD officers. It was when she was explaining some concept... attribution theory, I think. Interesting memory, right?? At least to me it is.