LOST.

Some call it luck, some call it the fact that there are 11 bars in a 4 block radius but for some reason, I find alot of weird stuff around here. Sometimes I am able to get pictures of it, and unfortunately sometimes by the time I get back to the item with a camera, it has mysteriously disappeared. Here are some of the more noteworthy things:

• Just today on the way to the coffee shop on morning break,  I found a pair of handcuffs - which were either covered in dried vomit or rust - handcuffed to a large decorative ashtray - in front of one one of the upscale bars. I forgot my phone so on the way home for lunch I made sure to grab it so I could get a picture, but they had disappeared. THAT is a rough Monday.

• Leopard-print Fuzzy pillow under pickup truck: 

• 1 fancy lady shoe stuffed into the middle of a bush:

Should someone actually be concerned about this one??!! About a block earlier I also found a discarded bouquet. The leading theory so far involves a "runaway bridesmaid" situation, or some messed-up Cinderella-type event - both scenarios could probably be explained with tequila. The woman, or other shoe were nowhere to be found...


• Pants on the ground - No, really!

Found early in the middle of the road on Sunday morning. I suspect either something really good, or really bad happened.
 


• Blood. Kind of alot of it:

The walk to work on Monday morning suddenly got really interesting. Don't be fooled by the zooming out I did on the pic, this is "kind of alot" of blood. Shit apparently got real early on a Monday morning. On the sidewalk. Noticed later on that there was a trail of it leading towards the coffee shop. An EXTREME case of "I'm not conscious till I get my coffee" perhaps?


• The best thing I have found yet:

 Found him while talking to work one morning. It is about knee-high. Spent all morning thinging how I probably do need a 2-3 foot found elephant statue in my home. Went to get him at lunch and he was gone. It's probably for the best. God knows what diseases that thing had. But it was AMAZING.



• Parking sign wearing a soiled shirt at 7am in the dead winter:

 Yeah, I dunno. In the sign's defense, it was a really cold morning...



• Hats. But not normal ones. I don't have pictures of them as I found them in the street, so I'm not posting pics of them but I have acquired a few interesting hats. The first one is a green Puma athletic terry-cloth headband that I decided was lucky. I saw it while entering my apt at like 2am. I didn't take it then cause there was a crowd of people and I wasn't sure if it belonged to someone. I also remember referring to is as "The Precious". You can imagine what state I was in. I woke up feeling a little less that great on Sunday morning with one thought "If the precious is still on the street, IT'S ALL MINE!!" I washed it twice, and it probably is totally lucky. The next weekend I found a captain's hat. I had a little talk with myself about grabbing strange hats off of the street in the early hours of the mornging, but it was a freakin' CAPTAIN HAT. Who could resist? There have been other hats but, thank God, I was able to resist my urges to take them, which I credit as the reason I can proudly say I've never had mange, or head-herpes.

There have been many other things, maybe I'll post an update with some new pictures.

Also, if anyone knows what happened to that awesome elephant, let me know.