#the exception recently he has no idea who liam payne is or whether he's alive. his musical interests don't extend past the early nineties | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

july-19th-club · 2 months ago

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our least honorable regulars tend to come and go, and it depends on their age or how many disruptive children they have or if they're just passing through. Map Lady only stayed a few months but she gave us years worth of annoyances. but our MOST honorable regular is easy. he is a man named geoffrey who is sixty years old and deeply deeply deeply autistic and when he comes in the building i know i'm going to have a pleasant interaction and even when i am incredibly grouchy and bitchy i can see geoffrey and its like yippee a real patron has arrived. i love geoffrey. so does everybody else. he doesn't do anything in particular to be beloved but he is the mildest mannered man on the planet with only one flaw which is an unfortunate disdain for kleenexes, although for all the sniffling i WILL say he is a ready hand with the sanitizer. he reads largely music biographies and has a set of about twelve sentences for regular conversation, some of which are just echolalia material. when you chat with geoffrey you know exactly what you're going to get, which is one of the most refreshing parts of having him come in on a busy or unsettling day. the exception to his catalogue of stock phrases is when he is sharing actor/musician birthday and death day trivia. he always brings his books back on time and he always says "i always bring them back on time" and we say thank you we love that about you. and he says "sorry to keep coming in like this" and we say please do not apologize for being the best part of our day every day. we love you. geoffrey <3

#he has one of those very fast monotone speech patterns so new employees always struggle to understand him at first #but once you get in the geoffrey zone he is immediately recognizable as a cool dude with cool interests #he's a guy with some pretty high support needs but he's thriving in his middle age and he's clearly had support all his life in this way #which makes me fond of his family who ive never met. that they are good to him. and its a privilege to be a small part of that system #we know what books he likes and when an old favorite of his has been read too many times and he's the only one who reads it #we delete it from the system and he can take it to keep #and you BET your ass. if somebody famous dies. he will be in that day to tell you how old they were and how it happened #the exception recently he has no idea who liam payne is or whether he's alive. his musical interests don't extend past the early nineties #anyway he's a cool dude always walking around town sometimes reading on the lawn of the old high school #works at the tool factory part time. goes to his mom's house for christmas . his dad was a music professor

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