How I Became a Creeper

How I Became a Creeper

To inaugurate my first post, I thought, what better way than to explain how I became a creeper.

So, I was on my way to class. I unfortunately have to park on Livingston and then haul myself over to College Ave because parking at Rutgers is pretty much like a Best Buy on Black Friday. I packed into the crowded LX and prepared to enjoy the 20 minutes of serenity that I get before the 6 hours of academic brain pounding I call Mondays and Wednesdays. As I listened to my music (Chance that it was my Selena Gomez playlist: Probable), I noticed a blinding sparkle in the corner of my eye. Naturally, I looked over to see what it was. After my initial glance, I concluded that it was coming from the eye of the girl sitting across from where I was standing. I peered over one more time to try and figure out what it was, but not successfully.

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(Kinda like this, but not at all)

Now I didn’t want to stare too long so I broke my gaze and continued to enjoy my music. However, curiosity got the best of me and I kept looking over to get a better view. I thought, she either has something really shiny on her eye or is crying diamonds. Both are pretty sweet, and I wanted some closure. I inconspicuously looked over one more time only to have the guy standing next to me rock back and forth and disrupt my view. When the bus stabilized and everyone returned to their original positions, I saw perhaps the most terrifying thing ever. Diamond-Eyes was glaring right at me. The glare was so intense that it melted my face and punched me in the stomach simultaneously. I don’t say this to insult her physical appearance. In fact, I don’t even know what she exactly looked like since I was only really investigating the source of the shine (her eye).

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(Pictured: DID NOT HAPPEN)

I never felt more embarrassed or disappointed in my life. Now, one may say coming from me this is a biased opinion, but I sincerely did not mean to creep on this person. When you see something that resembles a chandelier on someone’s FACE…it’s just one of those things that you notice. Also, even though it took a few paragraphs to describe this event, this all happened in a span of maybe 30 seconds to a minute. I wish I could accurately tell you what the source of this sparkle was, but I cannot.

So what happened next you ask? I stood there in the remains of my now depleted social etiquette wondering what just happened. Sure, I tried to play it cool…but there’s no recovering from something so mind shattering.

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Paul Lee is a senior at Rutgers University studying Journalism and Media Studies. In his free time he enjoys hip-hop, being scared of Carrot Top, and bibimbap.