Sights and Sounds

I've seen and heard some interesting things this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. If I were a better writer I would convey them with in concise paragraphs, elegantly connected with smooth and motivating transitions. But I'm not, so I'm going to make a list.

1) Too many noises: There are two people out there making their own sound effects. Sort of. I'll explain. The first was a girl I was sitting across from at a Korean barbeque place. She REALLY liked the food. Some people say "mmm, this is good," for the benefit of the chef or for their fellow eaters. Very few do the same thing repeatedly over the entire course of the dinner. "Mmm, this beef is good. MMmm. mmMMM. Oh, mmm, yummy. Ummmimmm." No one was mmming back. She was simply making yum noises for her own benefit.

The other person was a guy that entered the men's room the same time I did today. "Oooh oooh oooh," as he enters the bathroom. "Errr oh," as he tries to get his pants unziped. "Aaaaaahhhhhhh," as he empties his bladder. Then while he was washing his hands he made an impressive and wide ranging display of throat clearing noises. Then, splashing some water on his face, he left the bathroom with a conclusive, "yeeeaaaaahhhhh."

2) Camouflage: These was a man driving a Saturn on 80E who was wearing a blue and white Hawaiian print shirt. His seats were also wearing blue and white Hawaiian print. I could see his arms, legs, and head, but his torso blended perfectly with the seats.

3) Day care: In what should have been a display window of one of the House-O-Crap stores on Mission street, there was a mostly blocked off and fairly well hidden play room. Inside was a small child, probably 6 or 7, watching the smallest TV I've ever seen, and working on a puzzle on a little red plastic table, and sitting on a little blue plastic chair. He was hidden from the street by fabric which had been hung inside the windows, and hidden from the interior of the store by some fabric hung from the ceiling and a display of shoes (which included the ever popular Air Jumper brand.) I guess it's as good a place as any to leave your child if you need to be minding the store, making sure nobody walks off with a luminous, rotating colorful spiral-backed, wall-hanging of Jesus. ($9.99)

4) Last and probably least, I was driving on 80W behind a Little Caesar’s box truck. I haven't seen a Little Caesar’s Pizza in probably 10 years. If there are indeed Little Caesar’s locations in business, their numbers are probably low enough that they could easily be supplied by a guy on a moped.