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January 16, 2004
Crazy: Part 1
Ok, on to what i started this blog for: detailing quirky, funny, completely new, crazy, or otherwise cock-your-head-to-one-side-and-or-raise-an-eyebrow events happening around UM... which seem to happen multiple times per day... amazingly enough. To die-hard Ann Arbor-ites, this will be most likely be common news and even odd that i would point out such natural things (like, "of course the squirrels are orange!"), but for people new to AA like me (5 months and counting), it is quite the opposite. So...
quick recap of a few days ago:
-- UM has a truck that drives around the campus, spraying some kind of liquid out the back (hopefully it is deicer)
-- UM also has these vehicles that instead of blowing the snow, they brush it it away with a big rotating cylinder
and Today (well, Thursday, technically):
-- as i was waiting for the UM Blue Bus in the whatever single degree weather it is here now, I see the Bus come barrelling down the hill from the Stadium, with none other than a bicyclist pedaling no more than 10 feet in front of the bus! With total disregard for speed, snow, and safety, he narrowly escaped vehicular collision by coasting through the stop sign, as the bus jammed its brakes and slid to a halt in front of us chilly bus-riders
-- yet another one: person (gender undeterminable), completely covered in wintery garments, including boots, coat, gloves, a hat and a scarf revealing only his/her eyes.... and pedaling a bicycle ... on the snowy, ice-covered sidewalks... thereby probably generating twice as much windchill and double the skinburn.
-- and the best: 7 foil-wrapped baked potatoes, strewn haplessly on a snowy walkway. who dropped those, and picked not one of them up? and why were they carrying them over the street-divider on N. University?
Posted by MaTT at January 16, 2004 01:51 AM
Comments
I want a baked potato!
Posted by: srah at January 16, 2004 02:03 AM
Your readers demand more blogging!
Posted by: srah at January 22, 2004 12:46 PM
I know i know -- for the past few days i haven't seen anything like i was for a while... the weirdest thing in a while was seeing a nicely dressed girl lean over and unceremoniously spit into a public garbage can without breaking a stride in her walk... i could blame it on 502 [see ranting on srah's blog], but i haven't started yet (hopefully soon tho) :)
Posted by: MaTT at January 22, 2004 07:28 PM
Are you one of those people who knows how to do math? Because then I hate you.
Posted by: srah at January 23, 2004 01:03 AM
I do alright counting up to 20 but once i run out of fingers and toes i start having trouble... I wasn't bringing the fury down upon 502 like some people i know but i also didn't enjoy it -- something harder than 540 homework - wow! Kelly Garrett better not hear about this...
Posted by: MaTT at January 23, 2004 03:14 AM
ya know, i could start a blog like your site, except of Japan. They have some interesting things over here. for example, in the bathroom there is a hand dryer that literally force-blows the water off your hands, instead of just blowing hot air to dry them like in America.
Posted by: meredy at January 25, 2004 06:24 AM
baked potatoes = funny
I laughed... I'm trying not to come off as mean, it was funny! I am amused, goddamn! maybe I need sleep? or just to be blissfully unaware of reality again....
Posted by: Urs at February 4, 2004 12:06 AM