I've recently gone back to my dumbphone days and started running "naked" again — the cold weather kills my battery so fast that it's unnecessary dead weight in my pocket.
It's not like I'm training for anything, so I don't need to know my pace or splits; I'm also not doing solo night runs or venturing so far out into the wilderness that I fear for my safety when phone-free.
The most important purpose the iPhone has been serving, therefore, has been to take photos of the quirky things I find on my new routes. Such as:
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| A "little free library" outside someone's home. |
I've never seen an informal library outside of a coffee shop or a hotel, but I'm glad to find this — mostly because bookworms like to know they're not alone, but partly because then I have a backup plan if I run out of reading material while the library system is closed.
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| Traveling shrimp salesmen? |
My parents live in the country, so I'm used to seeing roadside stands with produce. I've spent my entire life in the Midwest, so I'm *not* used to seafood tents. And no, I didn't buy any.
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| I think this was at the Jimmy John's on Grand. |
I really hope someone has parked here illegally, and the business owner followed through with the graffiti's threat instead of calling a tow truck.
These photos are hilarious. I would so much rather be tickled than ticketed...or maybe I wouldn't. I used to live in a small town that had a book swap at the town dump. Got lots of gems there. And my building in NYC now has a communal bookshelf in the basement next to the laundry room. Take a book, leave a book. I love it!
ReplyDeleteApparently my grandparents' town of 1,000 also has a book swap spot -- I'm clearly way behind the times in paying attention :) But you raise a good point about tickling versus ticketing. On the one hand, paying a parking fine feels like setting your money on fire, but on the other hand ... who's doing the tickling? A little scary!
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