I'm becoming and agoraphobic

Last night, Fry's was packed with people. It was like the day before Thanksgiving. There was a curving line for every checkout aisle, so I lined up behind the express lane and waited. I asked around, but no one knew of anything that was going on that weekend, it was just strangely crowded. Elias went with me and we were only getting buns. I forgot to bring his shoes (dang hippy kid never wears shoes!) so I carried him through the line. Luckily my boy is slight and the line was short. :)

This morning I rode 4 loops Saguaro National Monument. The first loop was at 6:30 AM and completely empty. The second loop was strange. I saw somewhere around 30 or 40 runners, almost all with no shirts on, in very good shape, with that running doctor feel about them. There are always quite a few runners at the monument on the weekend, but this was insane. I asked the last shirtless superhuman I saw if there was a runner club meeting today and he replied "Not that I know of..." Strange.

I saw a couple friends walking along the loop and asked them if they saw the runners. Nope. I didn't see them again on my next loop. I called my friends when I got back home, they never saw them again either. I talked with another rider (who strangely happened to have a brand new version of my first bike) and he saw no sign of them. I think they were ghosts, or I'm going crazy. (Kristin has some hairbrained idea that they went to a picnic area or used a middle trail to cut through. Ridiculous!)

After the crowds at the store last night and the huge runner's group that wasn't a group I think I have a new mutant power. I think I am attracting statistically large but entirely coincidental crowds. Or maybe all this working at home is distorting my ideas of what a large crowd of people is. I'm taking Elias to see Wall-E today at the movie theater. I'm a little frightened of what I might find...