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A Happy Reminder

Yesterday I walked by a little old man doing yard work.

To ease the monotony he employed his transistor radio on his front steps.

The volume cranked all the way up on an oldies station, static be damned.

As I took this photo the Bee Gee's More Than a Woman filled the air.

A happy reminder of his younger days, to be sure.

As I walked away it triggered a memory from my youth.

I lived for Casey Kasem's American Top 40 every Sunday from 9-noon.

I was a total chart junkie and I never missed it.

I wrote everything down and poured over the charts intensely.

Casey Kasem was easliy one of my best friends.

Countless are the number of Sunday mornings I spent listening to his show.

Often on a transistor radio just like the one I encountered yesterday.

A happy reminder of my younger days, to be sure.

Cat Dracula

I walked passed this tour bus yeasterday.

It's the biggest WTF moment I've had in ages.

Cat Dracula? Or, I mean: Cat Dracula!

And their she is riding dashboard.

And she's fur-less. Or, I mean: fearless.

Totally crazy huh?

Only in Hollywood. Or, I mean: Hollyweird.

Bandito

The bus pulled up and as the door opened this kid backed off.

And tensed up.

I couldn't tell if it was due to the horrid smell that greeted him...

or the hijacker look on the driver.

Either way it was very odd - the odor and the look.

I mean I could smell it from the sidewalk!

The driver laughed because he knew he looked silly and said to the kid,

"Don't worry, I'm not a bandito it's just that someone farted."

Boy the things these drivers deal with on a daily basis.

Of course the first thing that crossed my mind was a saying from 3rd grade:

The one who smelt it dealt it.