and so it begins...

my first actual insane question of the season:

can you get a rat/hamster/guinea pig/ferret to wear a diaper?

keep the peepers open for more...there will be more

english please

ever think the word jihad could be mispronounced? leave it up to the local news...way to go news source 16. "jai-had"

rollin' rollin' rollin'

how does one forget to put their car into park?

sure enough, there was a silver ford focus which had decided it's parking space was not good enough and took the matter into it's own hands, so to speak, having moved into the middle of the lot.

after paging for the owner to "check it out," i noticed an older woman calmly walking out to the car as if this was no new thing. probably an everyday occurrence for her.

maybe i should start leaving my truck in neutral...just for the hell of it.

first time

is it still considered hitchhiking if you pick somebody up who only needs to go about 6-8 blocks on the same street of which you reside?

as i was warming up the vehicle in my driveway, a woman, close to my age, approached me with an anomalous story about needing a ride up to almaden and 8th. never, never have i picked up a hitchhiker.

taking a chance i told her "yeah get on in."

nothing happened except a lot of conversation on her part about her journey...and all i could do was laugh out loud and say "what the hell was that randomness?!"

impregnability

"do you feel safe?"

this question was proposed to me last night by a friend. typically i am not the sort of person wandering around scared for myself in situations. i walk around alone, downtown, with the ipod in, and at night. probably not the smartest thing for somebody to do, especially a woman, if i may drop the gender card.

i just don't ponder it that much. maybe it's the naivete or complacency of my having lived in eugene all my life, but i don't think so. i walk with an air of confidence, aware of my surroundings. apparently this results with individuals not molesting me, for the most part.

so many times i have listened to people, newly moved to the area, who talk about certain neighborhoods of eugene as unsafe. what? really? of course there are areas i know would not be wise for me to venture into by myself, at night, therefore i do not go. but my neighborhood? the whit? downtown?

maybe i am just a "badass..."