Champaign Adventures

So I've decided that Champaign is my kind of town in that it breeds awkwardness. Although I didn't have many awkward experiences while I was a student now that I am an employee I feel the awkward experiences keep coming. Maybe I just have a finer tune to awkwardness since I feel pretty awkward being here and learning what my life role is here. Here are some of my experiences so far (its day 3):

1.) Having lunner (my new term for a combination of lunch and dinner)with the elderly at Panera. Old people can sometimes emit a smell and when they are collectively in one location it apparently has a cooperative effect. I looked up from my work when I noticed the smell and noticed I was surrounded by old people. One cute old man with super big shades reeked of alcohol as he came in with his daughter. Another couple was at a table near me and were smiling at me as I was typing and laughing away. Here was our conversation (I hope its the beginning of a new best friend)

"What's so funny?"
"Oh...I was just talking to some of my friends..." (insert awkward pause)
"We thought so....you sure can type fast"
"Yes...well...thank you."
"How fast can you type?"
"I'm not sure...I haven't taken one of those tests" (since that was something in the 90s)
"I can type pretty fast with my two fingers" (insert demonstration)
"Wow...that's pretty good." (awkwardness....and go back to typing)

2.) Being told by the librarian at this library we ask customers to keep their shoes on (opps)

3.) Coming home to find an unknown animal dying at our stairs. Frightened by the fact I didn't know a. what type of animal it was (a cross between a beaver/groundhog/unknown) b.) not sure if it was dead or alive) c.) me feeling like he was looking at me and about to attack.

4.) Going to the landlord to inform him: I believe this is an unknown animal dying on the stairs of a certain apartment in a calm manner and then his response.

That's all for now, although it doesn't seem like Champaign has much, it sounds it will deliver on the awkward experiences.