I walked up to my truck in Dallas. There on the parking lot beside the left front tire was a freshly discarded banana peel.
My first thought was: "Wow, I hope that banana peel doesn't cause a loss of traction and cause a wreck"
Second thought: "Wow, I hope the gorilla that escaped from the zoo is caught before he does more damage (more littering)"
Third thought: "Wow, I can't wait to put this in Facebook"
Fourth thought: "Remember to put the word 'Wow' at the beginning of each thought even though I didn't actually say Wow, there was a Wow feeling"
Fifth thought: "Wow, I had better take a picture of this banana peel or no one will believe me."
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This really tickled my funny bone today!
S.Stauss: I thought it was a wonderfully funny event. I had just left the Jason's deli a few minutes before and had been working on my new soup poem while walking across the parking lot when I saw the banana peel. Sleep deprivation can be a gentle warper of your creative process. I just now remembered that after driving away down E Mockingbird Lane that I had the thought, "I wonder if birds eat banana peels?"
I distinctly remember the East part of the street address because the night before we had ate there after getting horribly lost trying to find the restaurant while traveling the entire length West Mockingbird Lane one and a half times. I didn't realize until the next day that my iPad automagically shows my position on its mapping feature, so its like having a GPS unit. My wife is the one to "blame" because she is the one who found the restaurant address on the separate laptop device without indicating East or West, she simply fed me a street address after I had gone into a conv store looking for other nearby soup-able restaurants. We promised to never tell our children this story of lostness.
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