Things I See Whilst Walking in St. Paul
Every Tuesday, I park at a remote lot in downtown St. Paul and walk about 9 blocks to the building where we have a meeting. Sure, they send a bus to take us to and fro, but sometimes I just need to bond with my iPod (Robotron 2.0).
As I walk, it’s like a mini music video that no one knows is filming but me.
I see some things on the ground as I walk, especially when the snow sort of melts a little bit. For your consideration:
- Starbucks coffee sleeve. (is that what you coffee drinkers call those things?)
- 6 of diamonds playing card
- smashed Junior Mints box
- toddler’s tennis shoe
- turd that looks like a gorilla was loose downtown
- 2 D-Cell batteries, still in the wrapper
- a mangled Celine Dion CD
- a bullet casing, maybe from a .45
- a king of clubs playing card
- someone’s grocery list
- an empty case of O’Doul’s
- 80,003 cigarette butts
- blue 2 Uno card
- McDonald’s burger wrappers
- an Isotoner glove, left hand
- the rest of the deck of cards
- wallet-sized photo of a young boy, maybe Hispanic
- an ad for lawn service
- crushed pack of Marlboro reds
That’s a lot of garbage, yo.
What do you mean by “loose” in relation to the gorilla turd? Because I could see that going in a few directions…
Oh…yikes. Yeah, I see what you mean! In my head like he’d broken out of a cage and was rampaging through the desolate city, you know, crapping on the ground and what-not.
This post was right up my alley. I do the whole “movie in my head” thing with the iPod running too.
As a Canadian, I feel so sorry for that Celine Dion CD. Poor, discarded, mangled Celine Dion CD.
With how much you are inspecting the ground, you need to be careful. Might faceplant on a sign or walk right out into traffic.
P.S. I almost spit my Mt.Dew all over my monitor when I read Jean’s comment.