City Life

Flynn must've told me HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOMMA, about 25 times yesterday. That in & of itself is a gift. Forget the fact that I ended up w/ a fever & a nasty sinus/allergy/cold/virus thing & didn't really sleep last night.

Something funny though about the South County pedestrian system (or lack therof). Jeff was at the McD's by Babies R Us. I ran into the Walgreen, catty-whompus (how do u spell that anyway??) from there. I was all, "Oh, I'll walk over there." Feeling all city-like. Haha... as I stood at one intersection through THREE cycles of lights and it still never turned. But that wasn't even the worst thing... the worst was the STARING. I guess each motorist was shocked to see someone standing there who wasn't either:

• Selling giant pixysticks in exchange for a donation to their church
• Selling Gus's Pretzels
• Selling a paper
• Holding a firefighters' boot & asking for change
• Holding a cardboard sign (which, after standing there for several minutes, I did get a little hungry & started to consider it)

So then, I give up on that intersection & walk down to another. Which didn't even have a signal for the way I was wanting to go. AAAARGH. Forget it. I stood there & waited for Jeff to come riding up in his silver horse, I mean minivan, and save me.

So much for city life.