Wednesday, August 03, 2011

Maybe Step Off The Trail

I was running the other day on a trail behind our house. As I was running, I saw a man and a woman ahead on the trail. They were bicyclists; the woman was still on her bike, and the man was standing on the edge of the trail. As I got closer, I noticed the man walking over to his bike as he zipped up his pants. It seemed odd that he would just stand on the trail and pee. Sure, plenty of guys pull off to the side like that, but why not find some cover? By the time I got to them, they both realized that I had seen what was going on, and they were obviously a little embarrassed. The woman gave me a sort of half-smile with downcast eyes, and the guy also half-smiled. He made eye contact and chuckled a bit though. It was a strange and kind of awkward encounter.

Tuesday, August 02, 2011

Subway or Laundromat?

One morning at Subway (the restaurant, not the mass transit train), we were sitting at a table when some undies randomly showed up on the floor in the doorway. We tried to figure out who might have left them there. They appeared to be ladies' undies. There were only three possibilities in the establishment that fit the gender requirement.
As we were sitting there, one woman went to walk out the door. She noticed the undies, looked startled, and stopped. She looked down at the undies, seemed to consider her options and then walked away. She looked amused and kind of embarrassed. Rob Valentine was pretty sure that she was the undie dropping culprit.
Another woman walked out and barely seemed to notice the undies. She did step over them though.
The last woman was waiting in line the whole time we were there. I imagined her to be the undie dropper; I'm not sure why. She just looked like she might go around leaving her undies in strange places, I guess.