{"id":342,"date":"2017-06-16T15:03:04","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T14:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grahamwho.com\/grahamwrites\/?p=342"},"modified":"2024-10-17T16:54:54","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T15:54:54","slug":"flash-fiction-nobodys-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grahamwho.com\/grahamwrites\/2017\/06\/16\/flash-fiction-nobodys-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Nobody&#8217;s Business"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" src=\"http:\/\/grahamwho.com\/grahamwrites\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/alone_in_the_crowd_by_cunny1988.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-348\" srcset=\"http:\/\/grahamwho.com\/grahamwrites\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/alone_in_the_crowd_by_cunny1988.jpg 1600w, http:\/\/grahamwho.com\/grahamwrites\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/alone_in_the_crowd_by_cunny1988-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/grahamwho.com\/grahamwrites\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/alone_in_the_crowd_by_cunny1988-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/grahamwho.com\/grahamwrites\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/alone_in_the_crowd_by_cunny1988-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/grahamwho.com\/grahamwrites\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/alone_in_the_crowd_by_cunny1988-750x563.jpg 750w, http:\/\/grahamwho.com\/grahamwrites\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/alone_in_the_crowd_by_cunny1988-428x321.jpg 428w, http:\/\/grahamwho.com\/grahamwrites\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/alone_in_the_crowd_by_cunny1988-267x200.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nobody left the toilet unflushed last night.<br>Nobody left that empty milk carton in the fridge this morning.<br>Nobody used all of the bread.<br>I did.<br>Yeah. I did all of those things.<br>I am Nobody.<br>And there\u2019s not one thing any of you can do about it. Because none of you have the slightest idea who I am.<br>Not one teacher could remember my name at school, or place me at parent teacher meetings for that matter. Speaking of parents, they often forgot to lay a place for me at the table, or acknowledge my birthday.<br>Waiting staff serve everyone around and behind me in coffee shops and bars.<br>When I speed, I don\u2019t get pulled over. And when I find myself at a police checkpoint, I just drive on through as if the cops don\u2019t even see me.<br>Hell, I haven\u2019t paid for groceries in years, just walk on out the door with my cart full.<br>I\u2019m the next best thing to invisible, even have to push my way through automatic doors.<br>Does it get me down?<br>Does it shit.<br>Better to be a nobody than a somebody.<br>Somebodies get noticed, get promoted, get awarded, get pay raises, get fast cars, get expensive wives, get big houses, get enemies, get prices put on their head.<br>By people who need a nobody like me.<br>The kind of nobody even an infrared camera can\u2019t see, that two Doberman pinschers can\u2019t smell, that can stroll into a master bedroom and squeeze the life out of somebody\u2019s neck without somebody\u2019s said trophy wife batting a well maintained eyelid.<br>So next time you get that feeling, as you leave your home or walk down that badly lit street, think twice when somebody tries to reassure you with words like these.<br>\u201cNobody is out there watching you.\u201d<br>\u201cNobody is following you.\u201d<br>\u201cNobody is going to hurt you.\u201d<br>Because I am nobody.<br>And I\u2019ve been put on this earth to do all of those things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nobody left the toilet unflushed last night.Nobody left that empty milk carton in the fridge this morning.Nobody used all of the bread.I did.Yeah. I did all of those things.I am Nobody.And there\u2019s not one thing any of you can do about it. Because none of you have the slightest idea who I am.Not one teacher [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flash-fiction","category-short-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grahamwho.com\/grahamwrites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grahamwho.com\/grahamwrites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grahamwho.com\/grahamwrites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grahamwho.com\/grahamwrites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grahamwho.com\/grahamwrites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/grahamwho.com\/grahamwrites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1385,"href":"http:\/\/grahamwho.com\/grahamwrites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions\/1385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grahamwho.com\/grahamwrites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grahamwho.com\/grahamwrites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grahamwho.com\/grahamwrites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}