Music & Community

Thursday night I ran to the drug store. By ran, I mean drove...anyway, as I went by the music store in my neighborhood, I saw a group of old men and a few old women sitting outside of it in folding chairs playing guitars & banjos & such & singing bluegrass. On the way back they were still there so I rolled all my windows down and drove by really really slow. It made me smile & wish I had been going for a walk rather than driving.

b.b. gun no more

When cars are parked on both sides of my street, it is not big enough for 2 cars to pass so one car has to pull over & wait for the other to pass. Today on the way home I did that & had my window down. All of a sudder I heard "Jill!" I look over & 2 of the nieghborhood boys are on one of their front porches so I turned my music down & said hi. One of them says "Guess what happened to me." I ask what & he says "I ain't got a b.b. gun no more."
"Why not?"
"It broke."

Bikers

The other day I was at the walk-up Dairy Queen at the end of my block. A white guy on a bike rode by rapping loudly, but not well at all. Then the other people at the DQ said "&that is why video cameras were invented."

Then like 3 minutes later a guy rode by on a bike & had a crate on the back of his bike with a chicken in it. After I got my food at DQ I went home to eat it on my front porch. While I was eating the same guy rode by my house. This time no chicken. I wonder where the chicken went.

This Is Why I Love Where I Live

I just got back from Kroger. The Kroger I go to is always an interesting experience, but today was definitely the most unbelievable! It started as I was parking. An old man in a suit jacket was walking & I stopped to let him pass but he waved me on in an extravagant way to let me go first & then he did a little dance. I thought "aw, that's fun." Then we were both in the produce section. He did a little manuver to toss items into his cart & I told him "nice!" He didn't say anything though. Then I was getting apples. He came up by the apples to & was looking at some & then said "oh look at these." I looked & he was holding a white pet rat. Then he put it in a pocket inside his jacket & walked away. I go "he's cute." The man just kind of nodded & walked away. Really? Did that really happen? I couldn't believe it & had no idea how to react. I just laughed the rest of the time I did my shopping.

Then when I went by the discout Easter stuff an old lady picked up a stuffed sheep & said "Oh what a cute sheep!" really loudly & then just started laughing & shaking it in front of her face.

Wow.

Dismembered Foot

Today I went to my car to go to lunch and sitting on the road right beside my car was a plastic doll's foot. It had on a high heel. That was it, just the foot.