Rare Sightings

So Abi was here last week, and she'll be back on Saturday and the part-ee will go on :D
While she was here, we started talking about some of the strange things we have seen this summer. Fond as I am of lists, I decided this one had to go on the blog.

Rare Sightings 2009 :">

1. My "no nonsense" socks. Bought during our honey moon by my husband, they will live on forever in the pages of romantic history. They have the straight forward message sowed into the toe section of each sock. Love them. Why are they a strange sight? It's a sight for the wearer, not the beholder. It's not so much the message as the fact that it's positioned so that the wearer of the socks can read it, unlike the messaged t-shirts (which I nevertheless enjoy a whole lot).

2. The crazy man in L- town. Q says he's been around for a while. I've only seen him twice, both times on our way to the bank. The friendly man, dressed in baggy clothes, with really long curly hair and what seemed to me like a colorful reggae/rasta hat, was happily walking down the main avenue with a careless and light step, waving at strangers as he walked.

3. Rata asquerosa. (Disgusting Rat). I kid you not, it was the size of a cat. Q and I were going back home after a late afternoon walk, and there it was, ahead of us, crossing the street, walking towards the apt complex. It started walking just as the green man lit up too, so it even seemed to me that the darned thing had been waiting for its turn. I protest- there are no rat lights on pedestrian crossings! But yes, it kept on going ahead of us for a little bit, and then crossed the street again and went into the large green lot across the street from the complex. Guacala de pollo!! O de gato, o lo k sea!!

4. A bike-rack on the back of a hearse. (Una bici montada en la parte de atras de un carro funebre) Saw this one in KC while picnic-ing with Q's friend and his gf. Don't see that very often.

5. Shark bike. Yup. A bike all dressed up, with the head, body, and tail of a shark. Saw it during an outing with Abi, at the L Downtown Film Festival.

6. My moving plant. Okay, I don't care what Wikipedia says, Q. It's not a reliable source anyway. NO, ITS NOT NORMAL FOR PLANTS TO MOVE. They grow, they process nutrients, but they do not move like that. My mint plant turns, like a sunflower, to face the sun. Every time. If you move it so that its stem and leaves are turning away from the window, a couple hrs later it will be facing the darned sun. I swear. It freaks me out.

7. Arm incubation. I know this is nasty, but I think a small bug incubated in my left arm. I've had a red bump there for the longest time, and nothing I do to it makes it better. Any ideas? I dont want a little animal creeping out of my skin. *omg*