Rubberneck
I was trying to get to Wallingford in my car and ended up on 4th Ave. As I am sure you know, our previous Mayor's major accomplishment during his tenure was not only hosting the WTO and the corresponding riots, but also synchronizing the lights on 4th Ave so once you hit a green light, the next 12 lights will be green too. That, I discovered, only really works if there are less than the average number of cars the road.
As the story continues...I was stopped at one of the lights I was supposed to have sailed through. I was watching pedestrians clutter the city. "God they are all so cute" I thought. Other than their cuteness, I noticed about a third of them were looking up. I was watching them look up and resisted the temptation to look up too. As looking up, when you are inside of a car, gets ya nothin' but the view of the ceiling of said car.
It was fun watching people notice other people looking up and how the lookin' up spread through the crowd. Some people quickly looked up, others surveyed the crowd and decided, "Yup, enough of them are looking up for me to join in." and others were curmudgeons and didn't look up at all.
PS. Photographer unknown
As the story continues...I was stopped at one of the lights I was supposed to have sailed through. I was watching pedestrians clutter the city. "God they are all so cute" I thought. Other than their cuteness, I noticed about a third of them were looking up. I was watching them look up and resisted the temptation to look up too. As looking up, when you are inside of a car, gets ya nothin' but the view of the ceiling of said car.
It was fun watching people notice other people looking up and how the lookin' up spread through the crowd. Some people quickly looked up, others surveyed the crowd and decided, "Yup, enough of them are looking up for me to join in." and others were curmudgeons and didn't look up at all.
PS. Photographer unknown
posted by SA at 8:44 AM
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