Pop and Vespas
Sep. 18th, 2007 02:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tobu_ishiSo apparently today is just full of tiny snippets of awesome. Two more anecdotes for y'all!
-ANECDOTE 1: Buying Things!-
The universe obviously likes me today (so far, anyway!), because when I stopped off at the supermarket on my bike ride home, the daikon seeds I bought for the groundskeepers happened to be on sale, and so was a bag of caramel truffles. Score!
Even better, on the last leg of my journey, I swung off into a parking lot full of vending machines that I'd never explored before (you never know what you'll find in those things), and discovered in one of them a beverage I had never seen before. A beverage called "BINGO BONGO", apparently grape-and-cassis flavored, with a huge bunch of grapes and a sidekick cassis berry that had apparently mutated for both of themselves the identical face of a grinning 50's sitcom father, complete with shiny white teeth.
Also, the can is bright pink and the name of the beverage is outlined in STARS. I think I'll save this thing to take a photo of when I get my camera this weekend! It does not get much more awesome than this, especially as it turns out BINGO BONGO is quite tasty and reminds me vaguely of...something from my childhood. Maybe from the small chunk of it I spent in Scotland. I'm not sure, really.
-ANECDOTE 2: Vespa Attack!-
As I was biking up the last block towards my home, I found myself squinting directly into the sun. Always fun! Then, suddenly, out of that brilliant lens flare there approached a silhouette. The silhouette of a be-helmeted person riding a Vespa with the headlight on.
"Lol," I thought, of course; I had never seen a Vespa in Uryu before and found it very funny. (If you don't know why, there is no point explaining this anecdote to you. It's one of those things you've just gotta know in advance.) Because I am a twit, I added to myself, "If I see the silhouette of an upraised guitar, I am turning this bike around and booking it."
At that moment, the Vespa person swerved across both (empty) lanes and directly towards me.
I pulled up short, and was terribly alarmed for a split second--until I got a good look at the person at last and realized it was the mailman from Takikawa, who had very cleverly noted my very gaijin face and the very gaijin name on the package he'd just failed to deliver to an empty house and put two and two together.
This stroke of luck means that I will be able to make Aztec Gold Medallions for my classes to celebrate Talk Like A Pirate Day tomorrow. Rawk on. Or should I say, ARRR. >:}
-ANECDOTE 1: Buying Things!-
The universe obviously likes me today (so far, anyway!), because when I stopped off at the supermarket on my bike ride home, the daikon seeds I bought for the groundskeepers happened to be on sale, and so was a bag of caramel truffles. Score!
Even better, on the last leg of my journey, I swung off into a parking lot full of vending machines that I'd never explored before (you never know what you'll find in those things), and discovered in one of them a beverage I had never seen before. A beverage called "BINGO BONGO", apparently grape-and-cassis flavored, with a huge bunch of grapes and a sidekick cassis berry that had apparently mutated for both of themselves the identical face of a grinning 50's sitcom father, complete with shiny white teeth.
Also, the can is bright pink and the name of the beverage is outlined in STARS. I think I'll save this thing to take a photo of when I get my camera this weekend! It does not get much more awesome than this, especially as it turns out BINGO BONGO is quite tasty and reminds me vaguely of...something from my childhood. Maybe from the small chunk of it I spent in Scotland. I'm not sure, really.
-ANECDOTE 2: Vespa Attack!-
As I was biking up the last block towards my home, I found myself squinting directly into the sun. Always fun! Then, suddenly, out of that brilliant lens flare there approached a silhouette. The silhouette of a be-helmeted person riding a Vespa with the headlight on.
"Lol," I thought, of course; I had never seen a Vespa in Uryu before and found it very funny. (If you don't know why, there is no point explaining this anecdote to you. It's one of those things you've just gotta know in advance.) Because I am a twit, I added to myself, "If I see the silhouette of an upraised guitar, I am turning this bike around and booking it."
At that moment, the Vespa person swerved across both (empty) lanes and directly towards me.
I pulled up short, and was terribly alarmed for a split second--until I got a good look at the person at last and realized it was the mailman from Takikawa, who had very cleverly noted my very gaijin face and the very gaijin name on the package he'd just failed to deliver to an empty house and put two and two together.
This stroke of luck means that I will be able to make Aztec Gold Medallions for my classes to celebrate Talk Like A Pirate Day tomorrow. Rawk on. Or should I say, ARRR. >:}
