QuickJot...Monday, Victoria Day, May 18 '09

Past Friday morn, as I'm leaving for work. Kaitlyn Herbst, grinning on tv. Global 1, traffic chopper blattering above the Fraser bridges...

"...Traffic volumes lighter than usual. Lookin' like most people are getting an early start on the long weekend..."

Me thinking, so that's what I'm doing! I'm not actually going off to work then.

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Shopping carts queued at checkout. Bumping from behind. Impatient, even in a supermarket check-out. Explains slow-speed fenderbenders in highway traffic jam, and no one can go anywhere.

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Pretty brunette neighbour from the other side of the building...hula'hooping...outside on the lawn. Not round the hips hula'ing. Not like in a wacko movie comedy. Not suggestive. Dressed in jeans and long-sleeved hoody. Hair back in ponytail. Swinging the hoop up her arm. Like this is rhythmics. Gymnastics exercises. Her side of the building faces the busy street, I know.