D'vorahDavida
Yetzirah

Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction
Sun Aug 15 2004


Okay, so I hesitate to even mention this, but what can I do? It's diary update time and I don't have anything truly intelligent to say, but I do have a something from the "Bizarre Observations" file.

So three days ago, I needed gas in the car. I toodled over to the Shell station on my way home from Yoga class. I got out to go pay the cashier and passed a man dressed in work clothes with something dangling from his waist. I couldn't quite see what it was exactly, but when I came out of the store to fill up my tank, I got a good look at him.

This guy had a flattened round catheter bag of urine hanging from his belt, with the tubing going down his pant leg where it disappeared at the cuff, going back up to...... um, er, I don't want to think about it.

My eyes dutifully conveyed this information to my brain, which immediately shot back at me, "You have CLEARLY made an error. Take another look."

So I did. Yep. There it was. A bag of urine with tubing, flapping in the hot evening breeze, attached to a man who had obviously done a hard days work. (Probably throwing rocks at his fellow workers making "pee pee" jokes.)

I sent the message back to my brain, which has staunchly maintained that my eyes need examined and in future not to bother it with any more practical jokes about publicly displayed urine receptacles.

Your brain may concur. And refuse to believe my story. But I promise you that I speak the truth.

I WISH I was making it up.

Look, if I was going to make something up, it would be something more along the lines of say...... meeting Tom Seleck while waiting in line to cash my 42 million dollar lottery ticket.

But no, what do *I* get for "memorable blogging moments" ?

Guys with urine bags dangling from their waists.

Where am I going wrong?



10 Comments
  • From:
    Becoming (Legacy)
    On:
    Sun Aug 15 2004
    Very odd indeed. hehehehehe Well you gotta give him credit for being comfortable about the whole thing and not letting it get in the way of his everyday life. I think?

    Okay maybe not . . . *smile*

  • From:
    Allimom (Legacy)
    On:
    Sun Aug 15 2004
    at least it wasn"t an ostomy bag...
  • From:
    Pragmatist (Legacy)
    On:
    Sun Aug 15 2004
    If I didn't know you for the practical woman you are, I'd say you were having hallucinations. But I believe you.

    Some people...

    Maybe you need to go to a different gas station.

    Shalom
  • From:
    InStitches (Legacy)
    On:
    Sun Aug 15 2004
    hmmmmm, well I don't quite know what to say to that one. :)

  • From:
    Bookworm (Legacy)
    On:
    Sun Aug 15 2004
    I am constantly amazed by the things I see in my day to day life. It's good to know you see some of those same things, too. I'd rather you shared those moments than meeting Tom Selleck, anyway. ;-)
  • From:
    RealmOfRachel (Legacy)
    On:
    Sun Aug 15 2004
    I don't think I have any words. I'm a bad bad human being I simply laughed. A Lot. Mostly I could picture the look on your face which is what did it.

    Hugs
    Rachel xxx
  • From:
    ImNotLisa (Legacy)
    On:
    Sun Aug 15 2004
    Eh, I worked in an ob/gyn office, you can't phase me. Granted, I never saw someone with one of those bags at a gas station, but I saw plenty all the same. On very uncomfortable looking women, convincing me that I would do everything in my power to keep me from ever having a personal knowledge of one. Poor guy!
  • From:
    Fairywishes (Legacy)
    On:
    Sun Aug 15 2004
    I'm with Rachel. Not to laugh at him but to see the look on your face!

    x
  • From:
    Ichandra (Legacy)
    On:
    Sun Aug 15 2004
    hello mon amie you gotta do what you gotta do do to get through the day i say anyway
  • From:
    Enchantedbutterfly (Legacy)
    On:
    Sat Aug 21 2004
    I people watch all the time and I am often amazed, but I can honestly say I never saw that before! I had to laugh, I would have done a double take too.

    Butterfly