A Snapshot Candid

This was taken when I was waiting to take the BART home from work. This guy walks over to the wall and just plops his leg right up and starts stretching...streeeeeetching...He briefly looked around -To see if anyone was admiring his flexibility? I don't know...but he proceeded to stretch the other leg in the same way. Man, he was flexible! The two girls you see in the photo went up to him and struck up conversation while he was streeeeeetching. I didn't get a pic (dang it!), but these "groupies" decided to have a go at it and started stretching their legs along with him. It warmed my heart to see perfect strangers bond over fitness.

As I was coming out of the mall into the BART station, I saw these little guys strutting around like they owned the station. My mouth just broke into a grin. I'm sure people were wondering what the goofy grin was all about...Oh, well. Animals do that for me. I could be having a crappy day (or as my nephew might say, "cwappy"...oops -he learned that from me) and I could see this dog in the passenger seat of a truck appearing almost human-like in his belonging...and I will just grin. Animals are a gift that I am very grateful for. These two pigeons were not shy, either. A person was walking in their path and they just let the human walk around them...heehee. Go, pigeons! Maybe I anthropomorphize them a bit too much, but that's what's so fun about animals -their relatability.

When I was wandering around Borders looking for the FRUiTS book (Japanese street fashion photography book), I came across this obscure little booklet that said it was a tattoo book for those who love books...(Nerd alert! Talk about 'geek chic'...Sheesh!). When I came across this page...um, tattoo...I laughed out loud! For those who don't want to hold a mirror up to the computer or try to read backwards, it says: "I (HEART) DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEM." This actually kinda irks me some because it's not using proper English. Add an "s" at the end of "System" or add a "the" in front of "Dewey." Nothing says "Naughty Librarian" like a tattoo that declares a love for the ancient book organizing method: The Dewey Decimal System.
Seriously, I need to not be surprised when people look around to see who is laughing by their self. I certainly would look, but it would be a refreshing change from all the prim book readers I see on the BART every day. Not to mock people for not being as "reactive" as I am, but it still would be nice to see some animation in at least one person, once in a while.

I used to embarrass myself by reading "Far Side" at school and letting fly with a loud laugh at certain ones. The "Far Side" has a special place in my heart for making my normally proper roommate (my first roommate living on my own) start laughing uncontrollably in church. It was the comic strip where the caption said, "Ways nature says 'Do Not Touch'." It shows a puffer fish, a couple of other animals that have ways of warning with their bodies...and then a guy in a trenchcoat, with an inner tube around his middle, a bazooka, a boot on his head, and a molestache with eyes in a wide-eyed, sidelong glance. Now, don't ask me why I had this comic in my Book of Mormon, but it fell out when my roommate was borrowing it. She had a fit of the giggles that I still remember to this day. It was awesome. Not especially reverent, but I'm sure God would see the humor in it. After all, he made those animals...and others...like hamsters. He made nature's Tribbles to be deceptively cute. They are actually all evil little imps who will kill you in your sleep if you don't latch their cage shut at night.