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Three Things Thursday

Happy Earth Day
I’m pretty good about being green: I recycle, keep lights off unless necessary, keep the heat low, etc. Something new I’m going to try is kitchen composting…meaning collecting eggshells, coffee grounds, fruit/veggie scraps, composting them and using it to enrich our garden. What are you doing to be more eco-conscious?

Bring Your Kids to Work Day
I dropped Thing 1 off at the Caveman’s office this morning. His company has a full day of activities planned. Can’t wait to hear how it all went. She was beyond excited to go…or was it because she was missing a day of school?

Because My Life is Cracked
I’ve gotta share this story that happened in the Boston airport as I was awaiting my flight home. I swear I think these weird things just find me.
I was sitting at the gate and an attendant rolled a woman in a wheelchair up. She had a plastic bag on her lap with a leg sticking out. The leg had a black strappy pump on it. I immediately thought mannequin? Then checked her feet to see she had one foot and one prosthetic limb, both in hurrache sandals. She had a Boston Marathon medal around her neck and was making call after call on her cell to tell her friends she’d just finished in 7 hours. Very cool.

Along comes a largish woman who sets down next to wheelchair lady. She’s got bobbed red hair, white short shorts, pink tie-dyed cami and is pouring sweat. She has the yellow Boston marathon bag, bulging with stuff. She goes on to pull from said bag a pair of soaking wet pink undies and bra, holds them up, wrings them out. I’m trying not to obviously look but come on, who wrings out their wet underwear in an airport??
Wheelchair woman and sweaty undie woman start talking. Only  then do I realize that sweaty undie girl is not a girl at all but a dude in um, transition. How did I not see the whiskers before?

I hear wheelchair lady say “your body is coming along but your voice gave you away.”
I wonder if he/she entered the race as a male or a female?

Comments

  2. that's funny. i'm chuckling thinking of you witnessing this all. did this all happen b4 your emergency on the flight?

  3. Wow, that sounds pretty wild. I think I like flying so much because I get to people watch.

  4. AM-yes this was all before the med. emergency. With marathon-brain of my own, I was actually at the wrong gate so these characters were not on my flight.

  5. it makes it even funnier that you were at the wrong gate and experienced this!! Sounds like some great people watching!
    Congrats again!

  8. It sounds like were destined to witness the weird (wrong gate and all). Too funny! About Earth Day, my husband and I are working on reducing our footprint (hybrid car, walking, lights out, no AC, recycling), but we have a long way to go.

  11. That is too funny! There is a transgender here in Richmond (not sure if he/she has fully transitioned or not) but she races as a female (her new gender) … don't really think that is a level playing field …

  12. Ridiculous! Wringing out underwear in an airport!! I do wonder how they raced. That could be quite a hot topic.

  13. that is hilarious. The wringing out of the undies is gross. I have to say that if he raced as a she, that is totally unfair.

  15. Wow. That is crazy! But I do wring out my undies in public all the time. Or not. Whatever.

  16. ahahah I am glad I am not the only one who has weird instances like that, actually mine are not so much weird as much as I have seen more than 8 car accidents happen right in front of me I think God puts me there to call 911 or something it is bizarre and my family thinks I am dramatic…at least this is laughable!

    and seriously wringing of undergarments, airports have bathrooms last time I checked, maybe SHIM did not know which one to go into?

  18. THOSE were some funny, weird stories, Marcia! You crack me up! Poor girl, all you needed was a massage and a hot bath and you got…entertainment! Oh well, at least it was distracting!
    Hugs,
    meg

  19. I had things to say about your 1 & 2 but 3 caught me off guard and kind of has me speechless wow I don't even know what to say bout that. 🙂

  23. male or female, it still is odd to wring out wet undergarments in public like that….ewwww

  24. Okay, that is most definitely the weirdest airport experience ever. Hmmm….

    YAY for being green! We're lucky around here because the town picks up composting once a week when they pick up the recyclables. It took some time getting used to the "Green Bin" system, but I love it!

    Have a great weekend!!!

  27. Hilarious! I guess that answers the question, only guys in transition wring out their undies in an airport

  31. ummm. i don't even know what to say about man/woman with their sweaty underwear. gross?

    pretty cool about the prosthetic leg person though!

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