Recording summary · September 2016
They don't remember me
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Overview
Daniel observes spiders indoors, hears loud neighbors across the road, and eats an expired burger from work while questioning its effects on health and skin.
Daniel reflects on experiences working late shifts at a petrol station shop, including unnecessary procedural training and customer traffic patterns.
Daniel recalls multiple past occasions of people mistaking Daniel's gender due to appearance or hairstyle.
While walking home after work, Daniel reflects on recognizing former classmates who visit the petrol station shop without recognizing Daniel, contemplating past bullying, social isolation, and whether to confront them.
Themes
Domestic environment, spiders, and food consumption.
Neighbors across the street and allegations regarding their relatives shoplifting.
Petrol station night shift duties, training, and customer habits.
Past gender misidentification by others.
Encountering unrecognized former classmates, bullying, personal history, and life abroad.
Developments
Daniel finishes an eight-hour shift at a petrol station.
Daniel encounters two former schoolmates for the second time during work without being recognized.
Daniel walks at night in pitch darkness using a torch while vlogging.
Daniel microwaves and eats an expired burger brought home from work.
A cashier at WHSmith confuses Daniel's gender before Daniel clarifies being a mister.
Daniel spent two years staying home playing World of Warcraft.
Daniel spent five to six years living in Japan and Korea.
Uncertainties & gaps
Whether vacuuming spiders harms or kills them.
Whether eating an expired burger will cause diarrhea.
Why petrol station customers arrive in clusters of three to four cars with quiet periods between them.
Whether former schoolmates do not recognize Daniel at all, recognize Daniel slightly, or do not care.
Whether school experiences led to Daniel's mental struggles or if Daniel was inherently quiet and socially awkward.
Whether Daniel should confront former classmates or pretend not to know them and remain unrecognized.
Whether Daniel likes seeing familiar faces from the past at work.