So yesterday morning I walked out of the apartment in the rain. There on the sidewalk I saw a lone, unwrapped slice of Swiss cheese. I had mixed emotions: one, I found it pretty hilarious that this one piece of cheese found it's way to my sidewalk and two, I felt pretty sad for the person who was going to bite into a cheeseless sandwich. Then again, Swiss cheese is really not too delicious anyway, so maybe it was on purpose or at least for the diner's good that is was discarded. Poor, sad piece-o-cheese.
My random sidewalk sighting reminded me of some story (help me out if you know the reference) of a person that collected single puzzle pieces that he found. I remember thinking that it would surely be a small collection as I had never seen a lost puzzle piece just sitting alone somewhere. (English majors and other obsessors will note use of the past participle "had" instead of "have"). Lo and behold, just last fall I was at the tire store at our local Sam's club when I spotted a single jigsaw piece right there on the floor in the shop. And then I had to rethink just about everything.
Just for fun-what's the strangest/funniest/still-blog-appropriate thing you've ever seen on a sidewalk?
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During my first month in Asheville, there was a day I ran across a local Asheville-ian type carefully setting up his rock collection in the middle of a downtown sidewalk, including California Raisin figurines. I guess that's not a single item I stumbled across, but it was on the sidewalk. And it was funny. It's when I realized that Asheville truly was weird.
hey, you two! i was just randomly thinking about you guys the other day, and lo and behold, i found your blog through your comment on becca's!
how are you doing out there? we're good here--check out pics of our new son on darren's blog :) he's a sweetie.
miss y'all!
jenna
oh, wait, here's the link to darren's blog: www.brewitup.blogspot.com
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