that’s whacked

two happy events

Monday, Jun 5. 2006  –  Category: Musings

it’s funny how minor little events can make your day. especially when you day has consisted of grappling with webapps. i hate webapps. seriously. can i say it again? i hate webapps.

anyway, the two minor little events that brightened my day:

1) i’ve walked under the trans-bay terminal overpass tons of times. mark today as the first day that i can ever recall, that the overpass has not smelled of urine. normally i hold my breath as i walk through it, but today, i inhaled wonderful clean smelling air the whole way through. bizarre.

2) i was accosted, on my way back to the office from grabbing a bite to eat, in the middle of a cross-walk by a young cute asian girl. she asked me if i had a sec, i said sure – thinking maybe she was lost and just needed directions – instead, she started preaching the virtues of God and how Jesus was my saviour and died for my sins, etc. etc. etc. believe it or not, this is the second time this has happened to me in SF. go figure. anyway, i was trying to shake her loose as i crossed the crosswalk by deferring politely noting that i wasn’t Christian, didn’t believe in God, and as far as i knew, i had never asked Jesus to die on the cross for me. i would have asked for significantly less…. (though, i am thinking now to ask him to smite this webapp for me). anyway, i was getting increasingly annoyed (mainly because i just wanted her to go away and let me eat my curly fries in peace), when all of a sudden, out of nowhere, a cyclist came barrelling around the corner and ran smack dab into her.

just like that. WHAM

i mean. wow. that was straight out of a movie. or a Bugs Bunny cartoon or something.

i helped the girl up, asked if she and the biker were okay – they said they were, and then i continued walking back to the Sun office in quiet curly-fry-munching bliss.

i took that as a sign from God that, while maybe he won’t help me with the webapp problems, he could at least rid me of the annoying evangelical girl who wouldn’t leave me alone.