The Power of Three

Originally Posted: December 5, 2008

I wouldn't normally write about the crazy things I see during the day, but the things I witnessed were, within each instance, so odd that I could not go without sharing.

1. When I left my place, on the way to work this morning, I pulled out onto Hillcrest Rd behind a truck that looked to have a dog hanging onto the back of a truck bed for dear life. I realized very quickly that this dog was indeed already dead, stuffed and mounted on the rear end of a truck. "Mike's Taxidermy" on a sticker accompanied the once moving animal carcass. I understand the power of shock advertising... and it worked... I will never forget that a guy named mike will stuff anything that I decide to kill, but a dog?! I have to wonder if the dog shown was once his pet and he just felt obligated to mistreat his pet continuing into the afterlife.

2. The faker: I have just left the Compass bank on Hillcrest and noticed a Wave bus stopping down the road. For those of you unfamiliar with the "wave", it is Mobile's form of public transportation via bus. Anyway, the bus stops and a middle aged gentleman rolls up in an electric scooter, something around the 'Hover-round' variety, and the bus driver puts the bus in to Mexicano gangster mode. The hydraulics kick in for the chair lift and all of a sudden the guy pops out of his seat and grabs his scooter as if he is going to pick it up and lift it onto the bus. WTF?!
I didn't actually see him lift it b/c the light I was at turned green and I had to move along.

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(edited for reasons of drunken non-sense)