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February 10, 2004
Weekly Recap
Whew, looks like i have some demanding readers already... and i guess that's not a bad thing for me. So, here's what i've seen/heard (in semi-chronological order):
-- a steel girder lying in somebody's front yard: yes, an 8-foot long I-beam of steel, which according to this page weights almost 1000 lbs (tho i'm not sure about that figure). How in the world did it get there, and where did it come from (i didn't see it missing from any nearby structures...) ?
-- an intersection incident out of the twilight zone: at Hill & Division St.'s there is a stoplight, and traffic in one lane was waiting to turn left. Usually the left-hand traffic has to wait until the light almost turns red (during busy times), and wait they did, but after the light turned red, the oncoming cars just kept going thru the red light, one after the other, over 6 cars worth. And the the left-turn car starts laying on his horn... this strange site plus constant horn-wailing was just overwhelmingly odd. And so what did the left-turning car eventually do? Once it was clear, he turned through the same red light that the people upsetting him were going thru! So either the lights weren't coordinated or something freaky was going on...
-- [courtesy of my business school roommate who saw this:] You know that your efforts to get a job go too far when you unceremoniously pull a 2-liter bottle of Pepsi out of a paper bag in a nice restaurant when the server replies that the restaurant only serves Coke, because you somehow think this will impress the interviewer whom invited your group of prospective employees there. The interviewer's company to whom you are applying? Pepsi. (To call this lame is beyond an understatement...)
-- squirrels (yes again) CRAWLING UP a lady's pant-leg in an attempt to find some food she may or may not have had in her coat. (In the squirrels' defense, she had opened a container of *baked beans* for them, which i don't think is a popular dish in the squirrel family...)
Hope this lasts for a few days... thanks for reading and commenting :)
Posted by MaTT at 07:21 PM | Comments (5)