>>28692080"Good apple, right?" Jeff asked, really excited about it.
"Yeah, it's great," I nodded. It sort of tasted sour but I wasn't going to tell him that.
"Really?" he was really, really excited.
"Um, yeah," I was nervous.
"Oh, that's great, man, I, um, I took these from this apple tree I have growing, I planted one. It's finally making apples."
"Awesome," I was super nervous, I was not expecting to have a conversation with him.
"It's just so cool to..." he just stopped talking and looked at his apple. Then he bit it. "You don't have to lie if you don't like it," he said, really worried.
"No, no, it's a great apple."
"Good," he smiled, then ate some of his apple.
"We should rent Snow White," Jeff said to Astra.
And then silence. They went back to their thing, I drank my coffee and ate my apple. For probably five minutes we weren't talking at all. Then, as they were getting ready to leave, Jeff tapped me on the shoulder.
"Hey, you gotta second?" he asked me, really excited.
"Uh, yeah, yeah," I got up. I followed them to their car, it was really shitty and had a bunch of crap in the back seat. He opened up the backseat and pushed everything around until he pulled out a plastic apple the size of a cantaloupe. He handed it to me.
"Yeah, I found this at a flea market. It's, y'know, not real, but yeah, pretty cool."
I held it and looked at it. It looked pretty realistic. "Yeah, it's really cool."
"Yeah," he laughed. "Yeah, you can have that," he nodded, bit his apple, and then walked to get into the passenger seat of the car. "Nice talking with you," he waved, got in the car, and they left.
I still have the apple, obviously. It was the single most bizarre day of my life.