Strange Memories...

Now for something totally different...

I had a strange memory pop up in my head yesterday.

I'm not sure how old I was, maybe 15 or 16. I'm at the grocery store in the checkout line and I look up and see a boy bagging groceries. He looked to be about my age or maybe a few years older. And he is beautiful in that boyish, I know I'm cute sort of way, but I find I can't look away. And then he catches me staring at him, catches my eye. And would you believe of all things he throws me a cheeky grin as if to say, yeah, I know I caught you staring, but I'm worth staring at. My eyes skitter away in embarrassment, heat flushing my neck and cheeks. But inexplicably I can't stop my eyes from finding their way to his face again and horror of horrors he's staring at me with that stupid grin! And as my eyes hit his he has the audacity to wink at me! For some reason this disgruntles me. I don't even know why particularly. I spend the rest of the time at that checkout studiously looking anywhere but at him, avoiding another dangerous collision. And that's where the memory ends. The entire exchange happened in the matter of seconds without a single word spoken.

Now what is it about memory, that of all of the things I have experienced in my lifetime, I should happen to have filed this memory away? It was no momentous occasion, no date of significance to help me mark the event. I can't even actually remember what the boy looked like, just the interaction. And even more strange, what made it pop into my head randomly yesterday morning as I was getting ready for the day? I have thousands of strange memories and thoughts in a day, but this one struck me as so out of the blue, disproportionally large in memory for the insignificance of the event I had to share it.

What is up with my brain? *sigh*

And yet there it is.