Sightings during workouts

Remember the scene in Billy Madison during one of his "graduation parties" where one of Billy's buddies is spraying a kid with a hose, and the poor little kid says, "please stop. i don't even know you." ?

i basically saw that playing out on the side of the road.  i *almost* stopped to take a picture with my phone.   what i assumed to be the older brother put his little sister in the blue recycling bin at the end of their driveway, and was hosing her down.  she was kinda just chilling in the bucket, and her brother looked like he was casually watering some plants.

i was amused!

~B

Earlier this summer I was on vacation in the 1000 Islands (Upstate New York). It was 5:30 AM a little foggy I was on a county road pedaling toward lake Ontario when I approached a large farm, as I got closer I am looking at what appear to be very large cows. I got right up to them and realized they were buffalo. This was really freaky because of the early morning fog and their faces are almost human looking except for the size. I did not expect to see Buffalo.

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I was on a new bike route, and went by a small cemetery (not too unusual in the rural areas here). The first headstone I did the quick math with - they had died young, like 8 or 9 years old.  Then I see a few more youngsters - no one is over 20.  I start to feel a little sad and creeped out - WTH, a whole cemetery of children? What kind of disaster struck here?

Then I notice some names. "Fluffy", "Rover"...

Yeah. A pet cemetery. Duh.

Last week during a run, I saw something clearly dead (and big) in the road.  As I got closer the smell hit me as it had been picked clean pretty good by the local buzzards but then I noticed that it was a snake.  A BIG snake.  a REALLY BIG snake.

This sucker's head was the size of a Chipotle burritto (I had to use something you guys would be familiar with).  It's body (guess base don the ribs and what was left of it) was at least 6" in diameter.  It HAD to be an escaped python or boa.  Glad it was dead.

I saw one of these geniuses the other day while out on a run.  It was a younger guy....prob. about 20 or so out on a bike that looked to be a rental.  He was out w/a girl who I would guess was his girlfriend.  She had her's on right.  I just can't believe that neither of them noticed that something wasn't right.  (Or maybe she did and was working on figuring out a way out! lol)

I see lots of great stuff on runs, because I often run while traveling (and that's not counting the hallucinations).  Most recently, I saw four 60+ year old women, each about 4 feet tall, wrestling a bull to the ground (don't know why) in the middle of a field.  I was on Jeju Island in Korea.

On the other hand, during my swim workouts, I'm pretty sure the funniest (and most pathetic) thing in the water is me, and I can only imagine what that looks like (but I try not to).

Owen Wilson, Luke Wilson, Cuba Gooding Jr., Will Smith, Marg Helgenberger, pretty much any famous beach volleyball player, and a bunch of others. Oh yeah, plenty of porn stars. Honestly in these parts you don't pay too much attention anymore, usually it's just 'cause you were looking around at that moment and saw someone familiar.

P.S. Other people pointed out the porn stars to me. I have no idea who they are. Actually, other people pointed out most of the stars, too. When should I stop digging? Even if it's (mostly) true?

From my RR of a Century Ride:

My two favorite scenes from this: 1) At a graveyard, a sign that read "please see the commisioner before picking or digging grave". 2) A lady weedwacking the grass that was growing around the car that was parked in the middle of the yard. Good times.

I love riding my bike in the country.

Well not exactly ONLY in Texas...

http://www.seandotson.com/2008/04/running-with-hogs.html