Tree with Good Aim
Sunday, April 26, 2009 - 8:26
At work today (yesterday) I saw Sim, who (as I recall) had promised me that there would be no more random encounters in Ottawa. Wait, no, I guess that promise was actually restricted to the bus station. Funnily enough, I saw him from my cash at the other end of the store, and thought it looked like Sim (I didn't think it was because of the previously mentioned promise.) I was enjoying coming up with ways in my head of telling Sim about the doppelgänger sighting:
Sim came by, and I didn't get to make any of my comments right away because I had a customer in front of me who had decided to pay her entire $38.94 grocery bill in nickels and dimes, until she realsied that she probably had enough pennies to cover it and started recounting. I exaggerate, but not by much. Sim, the good sport that he is, was waiting while she counted so that he could have a quick conversation with me afterwards, but as the customer got to about $38.52, more customers started lining up. Seeing a potential cycle here, Sim pointed at the girl he was with informed me that it was his girlfriend, and took off. Hi Sim's girlfriend!
I biked home after work today (yesterday) in the rain, and a few houses up from mine there was a tree in the road. The amazing thing is that the tree had fallen right in between two cars parked in adjacent spaces without damaging either car. I'm not talking about a branch; I'm talking about a (potentially) car-crushing tree! For the less credulous, I took a picture:
I touched it up in GIMP (just colour adjustments) since I took the picture at 8PM and didn't have a ton of light.
*Disclaimer: For those who don't know Sim and me: We are good friends. He makes inappropriate Jewish comments (I am a Jew by birth), and I make inappropriate Arabic comments. We love each other very much, and only make such inappropriate jokes because we actually have what's known as a sense of humour. If this sounds like something you might like to have, try watching some Monty Python.
- "Hey Sim, I saw this guy at work who looked like you, and no, I don't just mean that he was arabic, there was, you know, just... something more to it."
- "Hey Sim, I saw this guy at work who looked like you, and no, I don't just mean that he looked like he had a bomb under his jacket...*
Sim came by, and I didn't get to make any of my comments right away because I had a customer in front of me who had decided to pay her entire $38.94 grocery bill in nickels and dimes, until she realsied that she probably had enough pennies to cover it and started recounting. I exaggerate, but not by much. Sim, the good sport that he is, was waiting while she counted so that he could have a quick conversation with me afterwards, but as the customer got to about $38.52, more customers started lining up. Seeing a potential cycle here, Sim pointed at the girl he was with informed me that it was his girlfriend, and took off. Hi Sim's girlfriend!
I biked home after work today (yesterday) in the rain, and a few houses up from mine there was a tree in the road. The amazing thing is that the tree had fallen right in between two cars parked in adjacent spaces without damaging either car. I'm not talking about a branch; I'm talking about a (potentially) car-crushing tree! For the less credulous, I took a picture:
I touched it up in GIMP (just colour adjustments) since I took the picture at 8PM and didn't have a ton of light.
*Disclaimer: For those who don't know Sim and me: We are good friends. He makes inappropriate Jewish comments (I am a Jew by birth), and I make inappropriate Arabic comments. We love each other very much, and only make such inappropriate jokes because we actually have what's known as a sense of humour. If this sounds like something you might like to have, try watching some Monty Python.