Yesterday

Random bits of yesterday…
Yesterday I was drinking from a water bottle and suddenly realized I was consuming my 4 year old sisters backwash as well. I looked at the bottle and saw a small city floating around at the bottom. Delish.

Yesterday I spent some time with a ten year old friend of mine. She sat in the back seat while I drove her to ballet. On the way home she started telling me jokes and riddles. I warned her that I’m really bad at those kind of things. She continued anyways. “Knock-knock”  ”Who’s there?” and on and on. Then I remembered a joke I read from a joke book my grandma gave me when I was ten.  I’ve been saving it in my joke-arsenal to use at the perfect moment. This was it.

“What did the hot-dog say when he won the race?” I asked excitedly. “I’m a weiner!” She thought it was a good one.

Then she started making up her own riddles. I can always tell when a kid is doing this, because the riddles start getting excessively long and complicated. I zoned in and out and she was STILL talking. Finally she stopped, but I didn’t realize the joke was over. There was a pause of silence and then she asked, “Get it!?”  I didn’t get it.

Check this one out, though. She made it up on the spot.  ”There were two piggy banks, one was large and the other small. The small piggy bank said, “I’m lookin’ goooood.”  The large piggy bank said, “I need to lay off the cash.”    Lay off the cash?! I definitely laughed out loud at that one.

Yesterday I was waiting for some food at a restaurant when I noticed a couple sitting in the corner. They weren’t talking. They weren’t angry either. It just seemed like they had run out of things to talk about over the years. They spent most of the time staring off into the distance and every once and in a while they’d look at each other. It made me feel awkward just watching. I wonder how their dates grew to be silent.

Love grows cold when curiosity dies.

iPhone pic in a parking lot. The sky is one of my favorite things in life.