observation #8
“To Die By Your Side is Such a Heavenly Way to Die”
She walks out onto the patio everyday at around 9:30am when everyone’s left for work. She makes three trips outside –
- She places her laptop on the outdoor table and goes back inside to collect
- A plate of eggs that she’s just cooked and then
- A mug of coffee with a packet of cigarettes and a lighter.
She’s always wearing pyjama shorts and rests her pasty legs on a chair as though trying to tan them despite it still being winter. The sun is out actually. Maybe she will begin the small stirrings of brown, baked, skin, like the girls that she sees in the magazines.
She eats her eggs whilst typing on her laptop and playing the song that she always plays during this morning meal – ‘There is a Light That Never Goes Out’ by The Smiths. She likes how Morrissey’s voice makes her feel like she may be in a television show and that this scene might just be a scene to establish her character. She finishes her eggs and lights a cigarette. She notices that the next door neighbour is standing in his second-story window, watching. He always watches. In fact, he sets his alarm at 8:45am everyday so that he doesn’t miss her daily routine. She sees him watching too, she always does. Today however, she gets up on the patio table and begins to dance for him, When the song is over, she flips him the bird and smiles, making three trips back inside with all of her things. He closes the blinds after a few minutes, sweating, exhausted.
He hears the doorbell.
This observation is about me. I partake in this same routine every day except for Saturday through to Monday and every time, I always wonder if the next door neighbour notices me. The part written in bold font is a way that I would extend the scene.