I saw a girl of about 18 wearing super low rise jeans today with one of those shirts that shows one’s belly. The jeans were so low that her hip bones were on display for everyone to see. She was pretty and skinny enough to pull it off but still, wow, what kids won’t do these days. They also apparently won’t wear jackets while going out in 40 degree weather for fear of throwing the whole super-low-rise-jeans-and-belly-shirt look out of kilter. Brrrr!
Tikki–Now officially a member of the You Kids Get Off My Lawn Brigade.
Yesterday, I saw a white Pontiac Aztec with chrome wheels and super low profile tires that projected out from the wheel well about three inches. I had to do a double take. Very strange!
When I arrived in work there were 4 full cans of beer on the grass verge outside my office.
The officeblock I work in is just beside a university campus. In truth various alcohol related strangeness is not unknown around here. Last week, for example, I arrived in work,and whilst walking over to the coffee shop I saw 2 girl students,presumably on their way to a lecture,industriously slugging their way through an entire bottle of wine. I can only surmise they anticipated a boring lecture.
On my way to work this morning a white Jeep Wrangler, half in my lane, half on the curb, facing me. It was abandoned, the two front wheels were turned inwards and there was a huge dent in the bumper, as if it had hit a telephone pole, but there was no pole anywhere in a 500ft radius. It also had a foot of snow on the roof and hood, indicating that it had probably been there since Monday night.
You’re actually unfamiliar with not only this classic thread, but all subsequent references to it?
I’ve seen some strange things while walking/riding around town, but none today, so I’ll go with Stephen Colbert, Andrew Young, Malcolm Gladwell, and the Harlem Gospel Choir performing Let My People Go. You can see and hear the clip right now at Colbert’s site.
You are seeing Liberty Mutual advertising. This year the place has the foam outfit on a frame facing the road. I guess he couldn’t get somebody to wear the costume with this weather. This morning it was -10 F again.
Another item: I’m waiting to see if they buy another Statue of Liberty for the parking lot this year. They now have two bad copies of the original setting on a 2 foot pile of landscaping timbers. She tilts askew as if she were dropped by a tornado, and rests on the Wicked Witch. The torches have a plastic cylinder you’d see on a house yard light. No effort was made to make it look like a torch. Ah! Poor Miss Liberty , how they dishonor you. Companies that use her in this way, should have to pay a fine. Why do they put two next to each other?
Next: There is one home and business who’s owner I recognize as having the tackiest tastes for the last 25 years. This years Christmas decorations amount to this. The newer open frame decorations are by the house. There is a Mary Joseph and Jesus in a manger. The Three Wise Men with camels are coming to visit. I just hope they don’t run over the Victorian carolers, which are singing to Jesus. Maybe they could go over to the second manger 15 feet away in front of the business. This is his older set of lighted hollow plastic Joseph, Mary, and Jesus manger scene. The decorations will stay there until May if he follows his usual habits.
All these qualify, because I drove by everyone of them this morning.
I had to pass an accident today and stop at the building right after it. A work truck loaded with construction tools had a crushed in front. it was going straight down the highway, before the accident. A pickup loaded with tools from the same crew was parked behind them. A large car with a crushed in right side was on the entry ramp to the interstate. They just couldn’t wait and pulled out in front of the truck crossing the highway to get on the on ramp. You can assume with a total car, they were very late for work.
About ten days ago the neighbor a block down the road called to say a van was upside down in her yard with a guy and kid hanging upside down in the seats. I only saw the upside down van and emergency vehicles from our house.
The last bad accident was about half a year ago, when a inattentive driver of a car sheared off the light pole across the road from us. I don’t know how the guy lived. I really suspect the phone in his hand when I went over to him, was the reason he strayed across the highway trough the light pole and road sign going over a second road into the ditch missing a few trees, and going aways through marsh before starting back up the highway embankment. The neat part was the pole flew high up came down on the fire hydrant, and bounce back up into the air in two pieces, to finally land a distance from each other. His excessive speed and lower front end was the reason the pole sheared at the bottom near the center of the hood, and didn’t fall on him. The car out paced the falling pole. I really wish the pole had broken the hydrant so I could watch the water spraying into the air.
During a snow storm a week ago, the highway was only clear where the tires of the vehicles were. Traffic was doing about 25 MPH and that just don’t happen. It was close to dark. A kid on a bicycle pedaled by on the tire tracks, with no lights, no reflector, no brains, and no parents I could pummel up the head. I noticed on two occasions since, that bike tires are in the fresh snow by the shoulder. This may not sound weird but it’s surreal if not weird.
Probably the strangest thing I’ve seen today is sequential thread titles:
What’s the strangest thing you’ve seen today?
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40? Forty? It was 35 yesterday when I went out to feed the horses wearing a bathrobe and slippers. My son wears a hoodie to school. I can’t get him to wear a jacket until the temp is less than 10 below. I frequently see kids in t-shirts and sandals at the high school when the temperature hits 40.