Monday musings: a praying mantis, a motorcycle accident, and more
Posted on September 10, 2007 in Personal thoughts by DM
I have to mention a really interesting experience we had the other night. My husband and I came out of El Rodeo on E. Euclid and were approaching our car, when I realized there was a Praying Mantis perched on the roof of the car, over the driver’s door. We approached slowly because frankly, I’ve never seen one up close and I was curious about them. This one was about five inches long and bright green, and it was facing the front end of the car. As we stood there staring at it, it turned to look at my husband. But it didn’t just re-orient its body, which is what I would have expected in an insect. Instead, it kind of reared up on its hind legs, with its front legs up in the air, and twisted its “neck” so its head was facing us. It then cocked its head to one side, just like a dog does that is listening to a sound. We spent probably five or ten full minutes watching it watch us, during which time it would turn and cock its head and neck back and forth, toward us and away from us, walking toward us and then backing up… it was just a little creepy because of the way their face looks a little alien-like… anyway, I mention it because I guess I have never seen an insect with a neck before, and certainly not one that looks around in the same manner as a dog or a human. It sure gave the little guy a lot of personality!
Well this was a tough weekend… I learned that a friend of mine had been in a motorcycle accident Friday night - she is recovering from a variety of serious injuries and it certainly reminded me of the need to “ride like nobody sees you, and like those who do see you want to kill you.” I haven’t seen a word about the wreck on the Register website; it involved a drunk driver on SW 9th Street and took place late Friday night or very early (wee hours) Saturday morning.
I see the Register finally caught up with the Arthur Caplan column I quoted from back in early August…
We are having our first 8th grade girls volleyball game tonight over at North High School… a few disappointments/irritations this year - namely, the 7th grade girls last year were all looking forward to wearing the 8th grade PINK t-shirts this year, but for some reason all three grades have to wear WHITE this year. And the damn shirts don’t even have NUMBERS on them, so now we have to figure out how to tell OUR brown-haired pony-tailed girl from all the other brown-haired pony-tailed girls wearing numberless white t-shirts, from the cheap-seats. Yes, I realize it’s not the end of the world… but, I’m really curious what the hell is so difficult about giving the 8th graders the pink t-shirts they were looking forward to wearing, and at the very least giving the girls numbers so they can be easily identified from afar.
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