Como Se Dooku

I can't think of anything to write today and something a little weird happened this morning, so let's go with that. Every time Halley's comet passes, I get up early in the morning and go to the gym before I hit the office place. Today was one of these days. In our story, I've already done my gym time. Before I go to work, I have to stop by the house so I can do a post-work out hygiene session. This is because, while I can shower OR lift weights with a group of dudes, I feel uncomfortable doing both, back-to-back, with the same group. Unless we're in prison.

I'm driving home. I've got top down on my auto-bus and I am, let us say it, rocking out a little bit. I turn onto the street on which I live, and I see a shifty, squirrelly-looking guy walking from his house to his car, which is parked out in the street. By the time I pass by his car, he's standing right there. In all his slump-shouldered, asymmetically-postured glory, he yells something at me as I pass him. I couldn't hear it perfectly, but at the time, I was fairly confident he yelled, "Count Dooku!" (In case you don't know (and if you don't know, I don't know why you're at this particular site), Count Dooku is an evil sith lord in the Star Wars oeuvre.)

Of all the things to scream at someone, that's a pretty strange choice. Even if I were Mace Windu or R2D2, it'd still be a strange thing to yell at me. What's the verb? Is Count Dooku attacking us, or are you announcing yourself as Count Dooku? Or are you just looking for someone to get your Battlefront 2 on with? And yet, despite all of this, I'm confident that was what he yelled. If I had a picture of this dude and I showed it to you, along with a list of weird-ass things he might yell at you at 8 AM on a Thursday, I think you'd pick 'Name of evil Star Wars character' as the most likely. For my own sanity, I am just going to assume this guy is insane or possibly mentally retarded. The only other option is that, like the old horror story, Count Dooku was actually hiding in my back seat and he was trying to warn me. I'll keep the light saber at my side this weekend, just in case.