So I've had a lovely Friday morning thus far. Friday mornings I am the "Manager on Duty" and I get to open the Club. I get up at 4:15, leave my house at 4:30 and I get to work at 5am. Good times.
This morning I got a much needed break from the normal routine. I got up at 4:15, left my house at 4:30 and oh! There is a raccoon hanging out in my front yard. He ran away, but it reminded me of the time when my roommates and I were sitting in the backyard of our old house in the middle of the day and we see something (perhaps a cat?) climbing over the chain link fence in the rear of our yard. The creature looks up at us and I think, "It's a lemur!" Not quite. It was a raccoon and it starting running toward us. We start yelling at it and try to find things to throw at it to make it stop running at us. It finally does. It was not until later that evening on the news that we heard out about rabid raccoons terrorizing Bethesda.
As I drive out of my neighborhood, I see another raccoon at the edge of the woods. I am starting to wonder now, was The Onion correct? Did Maryland close due to bankruptcy? Did nobody think to fill me in on this crucial bit of info? Did everyone have to leave and now raccoons are free to take over the state? Curiously, I didn't see another car on the road until I hit the District line.
I continued on my way and as I turned onto 23rd street from Massachusetts Ave, I see a man jogging. A little early for that? Perhaps, but I don't think much of it until it registers that I just saw this man's ass. He had turned the corner so I pulled up to the intersection to peek around the corner. Yep, he was jogging naked. My first thought, "We're going streaking! Up through the quad and into the gymnasium!" My second thought, "maybe he will end up in a pigeon coop. It is Friday after all."
This was all too much for my brain to process so early in the morning.
Posted by at August 20, 2004 09:27 AMI'd love to have a morning like that, just to say that I saw those things....well, maybe not a dude naked...unless it's McCreary...grrrr
Posted by: Nate at August 20, 2004 09:34 AMMeg's collected first-thoughts from this post: "its a lemur", and "we're going streaking". Note to self, always wait for Meg's second thoughts.
Posted by: Mike at August 20, 2004 09:43 AMI remembered something else... When I lived in Ocean City in the summer of '99 there was a naked guy. No. Not a naked guy... The Naked Guy. He would get drunk and wander around Ocean City naked. I have to admit it was a bit of a shock when I met him for the first time. He was naked. On our porch. I got used to him though. You know your party or your apartment was THE place to be when The Naked Guy showed up. He never showed up with anyone, he never left with anyone. As far as we knew he just walked everywhere... which begs the question: How did we run into him all over OC? How did he get from our apt on 4th Street up to 75th? How is it we ran into him at parties on the county streets (way south) and in Delaware?
I kept a look out for him when I lived there in 2000 to no avail. Perhaps he had already begun his migration to DC.
Posted by: Meg at August 20, 2004 12:07 PMso, during my second year of medical school i tended to study on the top floor of the med school library. there was a young man that we liked to call "naked bat boy" who practiced his baseball swing naked in front of a huge window in his apartment right across the street from the library. he also must have had a mirror right next to his window because he liked to pose in front of it at times too. it wound up losing its novelty but it was still quite a funny thing to observe from time to time.
Posted by: michelle at August 20, 2004 10:43 PM