Worked retail decades ago. Small community with a smaller Hmong population. Door had a digital chime that rung when it was opened.
Random morning, I came out from the backroom and came face to face with a little old Hmong grandma in traditional clothing asking "If I knew where the candy store was?". Imagine my surprise considering the door hadn't gone off. I kindly pointed to the store a few doors down and I swear she was gone in an instant...or at least that's what I remember. Til this day I'm still unsure if this really happened or if it was a very intricate hallucination.
I know that feeling...feel
ing of what just happen, was I'm tripping or did it really happen...this reminded me of a story where I met someone and was left a little of everything..ha
ppy, confuse...
So when I was 17..my first heart break...lols..
you know, everyone remember's their first girl..lols and if she dump or broke you heart too, the pain can be extremely difficult to cope with.I think today's young men handles it a lot better..but my generation...b
oy, I heard of boys taking their own like over stuff like that...but anyway, I was heartbroken...
trying hard to wrap my head around everything that happened...
so one day, I went to the barber shop...it was during the Hmong new year in my town and I believe it was Thanksgiving day too..But those Vietnamese/Chinese Barbershops be still open..haha so I get to the barber shop...and inside was a Middle age man waiting..I walked in, they greeted me and I sat down..All the sudden this man strikes a conversation with me..And he spoke Hmong to me.
"you are Hmong too?"
I said,
"yeah, how'd you guess?"
"because Hmong always been more handsome"
"I said, yeah I guess"..lols
I asked "you're not going to the New years?"
He didn't say anything, with his eyes close, and head bow down, he just gently shook his head.
then they called him over to get his hair cut..then shortly, a second barber shows up, so they called me over...
that mysterious man got his hair cut done, obviously before mines...so in my peripheral view, I saw him get up, thank the barber, tipped her, and walked out the door..All at the same time I was gently turning my head to watch him as best I could to where the barber was still able to cut my hair..lols...b
ut I could of swore....As soon as the door open, he was gone...Like I didn't even see whether he walked straight forwar, left or right...
When my haircut was done, and ready to walked out..I asked the barber shop owner if that man was a regular..She said, that's the first time they seen him...
don't know why, but the healing process for me started to begin, and after a month after that encounter, I was completely over my first girl....lols