Weirdo

Yesterday night was the first class in a Photoshop course I'm taking at George Brown college. Halfway through the class, we take a break and when I return from my little jaunt down the hall, there's a dude sitting at the computer beside me who wasn't there earlier. I assume that the guy is late but as the class proceeds, I peek at his monitor from the corner of my eye and I notice he's not following along with our lesson -- he's doing online banking! I'm dumbfounded! A few minutes later I take another quick peek and he's reading an online job posting for TD Bank. I look over to the guy beside him, to see if I'm the only one who notices this stranger, and he shakes with head like, "What's his dealio?"

For the remaining hour of the class, the dude continues to toggle between reading the same online job posting and looking at his online bank account. How I managed to follow the lesson is beyond me. This guy had me captivated. I imagined that at anytime he was about to stand up and open up a can of crazy on the unsuspecting class. Obviously, nothing happened. The class ends and the dude remains there, surfing the web.

The funny thing about the whole thing is that I wasn't sitting at the back of the class -- we we're sitting in the middle of the room. Also, no word of a lie, the guy is about 6 feet, 3 inches tall and between 250 and 300 pounds. He doesn't blend in with the crowd so easy. However, he's under a bit of cover in the darkened classroom so we could to view the instructor's lesson via a projector.

Freak! Next time use the college's library where you have access to a plethora of computers and you don't have to sit in the middle of a Photoshop class to do your online banking while others are watching you and wondering what asylum you have escaped from. He's a little offside or he's got stones the size of planets.