August 24, 2008


Separate Ways

Do you ever see odd patterns of human behavior being repeated through the course of a day? Yesterday we emerged from a restaurant and saw two extended families milling about in front, taking leave of each other. Several of their kids were bouncing around in one of those roofless, open-sided jeeps, “driving” ferociously and standing to bounce in the seats. Then the families parted ways, and some of the kids left the jeep and went one way, some the other. Only then did we realize that–that wasn’t their jeep the kids had been playing in, it was just a big toy they had found in the parking lot. // Later, stopped at a red light, we saw a man and woman on bicycles stopped in the intersection, arguing. She got off, turned her bike around and headed back the way they had come, while he went on. But he looked back, so she won. // Close to home, by the liquor store we saw two attractive young women arguing vociferously at the mouth of an alley. One of them was wearing a cow costume, and the other was dressed in a more typical fashion. They, too, parted ways–the cow on the phone, apparently calling a cab. // Day two–the start of something new? This morning, at the cafe, I heard a man say: “I want what I always have and I don’t know what the hell it is.”

posted by Daryl Scroggins in anecdotes, observations, odd, society 

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3 Responses to “Separate Ways”

  1. Amanda Mae Meyncke on August 24th, 2008 at 11:44 am

    She most certainly did win.

  2. Sheila Ryan on August 24th, 2008 at 9:35 pm

    Ah, youth. “We saw two attractive young women . . . . One of them was wearing a cow costume.” Clad in a cow costume. Attractive.

  3. Cindy Scroggins on August 25th, 2008 at 8:26 am

    That’s part of what made it so funny. They were sorority types (a state of being that shines through even when clad in a cow costume, apparently.)

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