I have
decided that every day has a little gem in it no matter how mundane the day’s
activities may seem. For example, this
morning I took the Explorer in for its service.
Nothing fancy in that right? But
along the 40 minute drive to the service centre, I was blessed with numerous
little ‘moments’ that brought a smile to my face.
My first
gem was probably the worst bed head hair you’ve ever seen. But not just any early morning bed head. No this one was perched atop Barbie Grandma
who was out in her silk dressing gown and pink fluffy slippers taking pookie
for a pee. What was amusing about this
was simply the fact that she was walking along the green patch on the edge of
the footpath in a quite upmarket area of the city centre but on a very busy
road. Only in America for that one.
Thinking
that my fashion moment had been and gone for the day, I was most happily
surprised to then get another one – this time a cyclist caused the corners of
my mouth to rise again. Not your average
Lycra wearing click-clacker. Nope this
fella decided that he would start his day wearing his full body leopard print
Lycra suit along with some Elton John glamour specs. I almost run up the gutter with that one.
Then it was
the floral armchair perched on a traffic island that made me smile and wish for
my camera. Now that one mightn’t seem
odd, but put it this way - the freeways here are 6 lanes wide each way; that
is, 12 lanes across. These lanes are all
occupied, generally 24/7, by big 4X4 trucks all driving easily 120 to 140kms an
hour and if you are lucky, the drivers might be busy texting, talking on
mobiles, eating or even drunk. So to see a lovely old floral
armchair/recliner sitting smack bang in the middle of this driving nightmare is
not only a true mastery of engineering but also an irony to look at – a
recliner for chilling out in, sitting happily in amongst the speed and stress
of Houston traffic.
My final
gem, all before 8am, was the ubber friendly coffee man. I just love the “yes maam”, “there you go,
darlin” and “yall have a great day now” that you get here. I think I even got a blessing with my coffee.
So…I wonder
what the rest of the day will bring!!!
