1166000: Late-Night Wanderings in a Sleepy Town
the numbers on the screen-1166000 and 1586696588-felt like some kind of cryptic GPS coordinates to a memory i couldn't quite place. maybe it was the timestamp of the last time i felt truly lost, or maybe it was just my phone glitching after three cups of coffee and zero sleep. either way, i was standing under a flickering streetlamp in a town i'd never heard of, and the air smelled like rain that hadn't fallen yet.
i just checked and it's 16.64°C with a "feels like" of 15.09°C right now, hope you like that kind of thing. the humidity's low-28%-so at least my hair isn't staging a rebellion. pressure's sitting at 1018 hPa, which apparently means the weather's stable, but my brain? not so much.
this place feels like it was built for people who like their towns quiet and their secrets buried deep. i overheard someone at a gas station-let's call him "jimmy with the trucker cap"-say the best coffee in town is at a place called "the grindstone." he winked like it was code for something illegal, but i think he just meant the espresso was strong enough to wake the dead. if you're into that sort of thing, check out the grindstone on yelp.
if you get bored, cities like rawalpindi are just a short drive away, but honestly? i kind of liked the stillness here. it's the kind of place where the only thing open after 9pm is a 7-eleven and your own thoughts. someone told me that the local diner-"sally's”-has the best pie in the state, but also that the owner once chased a raccoon out with a broom at 2am. take that as you will.
i kept thinking about those numbers-1166000, 1586696588-like they were clues to some bigger story. maybe they're coordinates. maybe they're just random. but in a town this quiet, even the numbers start to feel like gossip.
anyway, if you're ever here, bring a jacket, a sense of humor, and maybe a raccoon deterrent. and if you figure out what those numbers mean, let me know. i'll be the one staring at the streetlamp, waiting for it to flicker again.
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