It was pretty busy there and I made it a point to stay outside as much as possible. I even took my breaks outside on the bench and read "Catch-22" instead of taking my break in the break room. I plan on doing that on a regular basis now, for a number of reasons. I noticed that the whole time that Carly was ignoring me, she would avoid the break room whenever I was in it. I have a hunch that since we're not friends anymore, it would be awkward for us to both be in there. So I'm doing this to do us both a favor. I don't want to run into her and she doesn't want to see me. But running into her isn't the main reason. I basically found out from her that the people who told me they would try to talk to her about the situation between us actually seem to side more with her. I never get anyone telling me that she said anything, but they all go to her and tell her everything that I said. She said they would make fun of me, too, so I'm sure not going to walk into the break room and stay there for my break or lunch with no clue on who was making fun of me. They never invite me over, anyway, whenever they go do stuff, so they're obviously fine without me, so I won't feel guilty taking my breaks by myself and out of sight.

But I was thinking. Carly said I got too clingy and always wanted to do things and she would feel bad when she didn't want to. She said she didn't want the pressure of being the one to make me feel better. But I was thinking about her and Nick. First of all, she thinks I'm jealous of him because I seem sad whenever they go do things. It's not because of him, or her doing things. But most of the time when I want to do something with her, she can't because she's already got plans with either him, Ami, or her whole group of friends. He always gets first dibs on a new movie coming out unless he doesn't want to see it. Then I get to see that one with her. He freakin' pages her over the intercom when he's going on break so that she can take hers, too. I seldom request she go on break with me, and the few times that I did, she would say she doesn't want to. Whenever I would want to take a lunch with her, she would say she probably won't take a lunch. Then later I find out that she ate her lunch on one of her non-lunch breaks with Nick. I just don't understand that if he can make plans with her often, then why am I such a bad guy for wanting to do the same? I have nothing against Nick. He's cool and I've started becoming friends with him and even was thinking about hanging out with him, but now that this thing happened with Carly and me, she'll probably think I'm starting to hang out with him to get to her. Oh well, let her think what she wants. She blamed me for talking about her to other workers there and says she wants her private life to be private. Well, you know what? She's the one who started the dang rumors. Maybe not intentionally, but she went up to Steven and told him about us running into each other at the mall and he turned that into a rumor that I'm stalking her. So I hear that from both him and Ruby, so of course I'm going to try to understand what's going on, and so they go to her and complain to her that I'm bugging them about her and she get's mad at me for making her private life public. But also, she said how she has enough of her own problems to worry about mine. So, like I don't have problems? I don't get depressed? Of course I do, but does that ever stop me from putting mine aside and concentrating on someone else's? Of course not. Carly even told me that I think of others too much. Well, I've vented enough from that.

During my gathering of carts, I noticed a man standing outside a van and talking loudly to someone inside. He was of Asian race and he spoke a language unknown to me. I looked closer and saw a boy about 2 or 3 inside and hitting his hand on the window. I figured out that he was trying to get his son to unlock the door! Lol. I saw an oriental woman walking in their direction and asked if he was her husband. She said he was and I told her what he was doing. Later on, I saw both of them outside trying to make the boy unlock the door. The man said that he put him in the car, put the keys in there, too, and closed the door so the boy wouldn't get out and was going to load the groceries when the boy locked the door on accident. He finally ended up calling a locksmith. Pat, the greeter, told me that a guy had that happen to him from his dog locking the door one time. That was the comic relief of my day.