I can be a real jerk sometimes

....and last night was one of those times. I was sitting in my apartment around 7:00, watching the special features discs for the Lord of the Rings extended edition (all the behind-the-scenes stuff) and I happened to look out the window. Across the street were a couple of people reading some papers and exchanging this large bouquet of flowers. I quickly discerned that they were filming something, but I had no idea what.

Whatever it was, I felt the need to mess with them, so I got out my laser pointer. That last sentence makes it sound simple, but with the way I am, getting out my laser pointer is a somewhat long process. First, I must take it out of the bubble wrap sleeve it was shipped in--how I haven't popped it all by this point is beyond me--then remove the white outer box. Then I have to open the silver-colored box, which is a lot like the box that a necklace would come in. Inside this box is the laser pointer itself, with a place to put the batteries, so they'll last longer, which is how I store it--this means I then have to unscrew the cap on the laser pointer, put in the batteries, and screw the little cap back on.

Now that I had my laser pointer ready, I waited until they were facing away from me, and aimed in front of them. I only had it on for a second or two at a time, then would turn it off before they turned around. Every time they'd look back, I'd laugh to myself, knowing they couldn't see me. After a while, they began to look right back in my direction, so I think they knew where I was--however, by this point they were joined by four or five other people, so it was too much fun for me to care that they knew.

At one point, they disappeared, but the bouquet of flowers was still visible, so I didn't think they had gone far. After about 10 minutes of waiting for them to reappear, I just put away the laser pointer--fully reversing the process mentioned above--and went back to watching the behind-the-scenes of Lord of the Rings. I looked back out later, only to see that they were back, so I got the laser pointer out again, but by the time I got it ready, I was bored with the idea, so I just watched what they were doing.

I have no idea what it was they were filming, but they had a manic energy that is only found in either freshmen (or high schoolers) or last-semester seniors. Whatever it was, it looked really funny without any kind of sound. I may have to look out my window more often.