Crazy lady

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This same lady comes into the cafe walks around in a circle then leaves

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I have noticed the same lady come into the store, she looks as if she is wearing the same clothes every time. She doesn’t look dirty, she just looks very plain. Come to think of it actually, I didn’t see her today, but that doesn’t mean she wasn’t there. She only makes her appearance once, maybe twice a day. She never stays for long, just enough time to walk around the cafe once, very slowly and then walk right back out the door.

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I keep seeing the same young white female almost everyday. I see a lot of the same people everyday, but most of those people either camp for hours on their laptops or they are people that use the space and time to study. However this lady, she never orders anything and she never stays for more than five minutes. She doesn’t appear to be “crazy” she looks neat, yet plain. Today I realized that what constitutes a crazy person is their hair. If their hair looks wild and un kept, to most of us they appear to be crazy or homeless. She always has a dark blue jacket on, with plain blue jeans, and she clutches her black purse as she walks around the store. She enters through the doors walks all the way to the edge of the cafe and then, as if the bookstore side is off limits to her, in her own mind, as if there was some sort of wall blocking her, she turns right around and right back out the doors.

The most I have ever seen her do this is twice, and we are always so busy, or at least I am so busy that I cant really stop and ask her what she is doing, besides, its not as if its the craziest thing I have ever seen since working at the bookstore.

A few times I have seen the lady go into the restrooms, which is not to far from the cafe, but most times she refuses to even leave the cafe side. I try to figure out in my head what she is thinking, because it is not as if she is walking around in a daze not seeing anything. I think once or twice I did catch her eye for a split second. I wonder if she is doing this as an experiment or maybe she just feels like she has to make that loop on her way to work or home or wherever she is going. Either way she has to be making money, or someone is giving her money, because her clothes while plain do not look old or worn or slept in.

If the cafe where a movie she would be the extra that keeps showing up in and out of the scene at random times. I wonder what her story is, and exactly why she does what she does. I cant think of anything else to write about this lady.

I dont think anyone else has noticed her pattern, because while what she is doing is not weird in of its self it is very perplexing. It is always easy to spot the homeless people where I work. They will sit around for hours, almost an entire shift, just walking around aimlessly in that small cafe. Yet she does not, she walks the same circle almost everyday. I have yet to notice if she goes down the same street leaving as she did arriving. I have watched her leave plenty of times, but by the time I notice her she has already stepped through the door.

What if she is simply scoping the place out before a robbery. I wouldn’t be surprised in the least.