The title says it all. Write about something that threw you out of the loop (is that the correct phrase?) that happened right before your eyes (or ears).
I have two such moments:
1. There is a hyper market near me and it has a lot of non-food related sections. One of them is a little pet shop. Well, not a PET shop, but a shop which sells everything pet related: leashes, bird cages, dog and cat food, stuff like this. It also has a HUGE screen which generally show pet-related stuff, like doggies playing with each other or people grooming their cats.
So, one time I come to this market to buy food. I also bought myself a chocolate bar and decided to sit on a bench before the screen and eat it while watching animal videos. At first I did not understood what was happening on the screen. What the?.. Holy FUCKing SHIT! They are showing a video of a veterinarian CASTRATING A CAT! With camera pointing right at the poor guys' balls and later their absence.
I think that I'll refrain from sitting on this bench in the future.
2. I was a young kid. It was summer and my grandmother decided to show me Moscow. You see, I live in a post-Soviet country and as you all probably know, Moscow was basically a Rome of Soviet Union, and my grandma had nostalgia for this city. Well, whatever, I may see something nice and maybe I'll find some books/games that I can't buy home (it was before digital distribution became so widespread).
Anyhow, grandma sees a clothing shop. We come in, I get bored and tell her that I'll wait outside. I come outside and I see the following:
Two young men, one in a blue track suit, other one in a black buisness suit (i'll call them Blue and Black). Blue is acting... aggresively. He is making, well, those hitting without actually hitting gestures with his fists. Black is perfectly calm, he is smiling. Then Blue says something like "C'mon". And then I see Black pulling a gun out of his pocket and shooting Blue right in the face. It turns out that it was loaded with blanks and the only thing it actually did was producing a really loud bang and scaring Blue.
But this whole episode wasn't the one that makes me feel disturbance. No. It was my realisation that I was the only one on the street who actually cared about this whole affair. Every other person, every citizen of Moscow who was nearby didn't even turn in fear or at the very least savagery amusement. They all did not care.
I have two such moments:
1. There is a hyper market near me and it has a lot of non-food related sections. One of them is a little pet shop. Well, not a PET shop, but a shop which sells everything pet related: leashes, bird cages, dog and cat food, stuff like this. It also has a HUGE screen which generally show pet-related stuff, like doggies playing with each other or people grooming their cats.
So, one time I come to this market to buy food. I also bought myself a chocolate bar and decided to sit on a bench before the screen and eat it while watching animal videos. At first I did not understood what was happening on the screen. What the?.. Holy FUCKing SHIT! They are showing a video of a veterinarian CASTRATING A CAT! With camera pointing right at the poor guys' balls and later their absence.
I think that I'll refrain from sitting on this bench in the future.
2. I was a young kid. It was summer and my grandmother decided to show me Moscow. You see, I live in a post-Soviet country and as you all probably know, Moscow was basically a Rome of Soviet Union, and my grandma had nostalgia for this city. Well, whatever, I may see something nice and maybe I'll find some books/games that I can't buy home (it was before digital distribution became so widespread).
Anyhow, grandma sees a clothing shop. We come in, I get bored and tell her that I'll wait outside. I come outside and I see the following:
Two young men, one in a blue track suit, other one in a black buisness suit (i'll call them Blue and Black). Blue is acting... aggresively. He is making, well, those hitting without actually hitting gestures with his fists. Black is perfectly calm, he is smiling. Then Blue says something like "C'mon". And then I see Black pulling a gun out of his pocket and shooting Blue right in the face. It turns out that it was loaded with blanks and the only thing it actually did was producing a really loud bang and scaring Blue.
But this whole episode wasn't the one that makes me feel disturbance. No. It was my realisation that I was the only one on the street who actually cared about this whole affair. Every other person, every citizen of Moscow who was nearby didn't even turn in fear or at the very least savagery amusement. They all did not care.
