things i overhear

in entrance to Trader Joe's...
"Is this some sort of upscale grocery store?"

just like PA

no tax on clothing
and you cannot buy alcohol at the grocery store

impressions

thus far...
Corn and Target
so far St. Paul is seeming an awful lot like Ames!

Haha...that is just woodbury though, home of yupscale living.

sponge what?

Just a quick story here- we stopped by Dollar General aka the dollar store to pick up a few cheap
supplies. While there I noticed some marked down DVD's- including a Sponge Bob DVD. Yay. I picked that up, along with the other stuff, and when the cashier was ringing things up, was surprised to find out (actually all 3 of us were!) that something we were buying required age verification???! HAHA? What could it be? Here is what we got: tape, light bulbs,
batteries & SB. Have people found a way to make drugs out of batteries? Is it some bootleg SB
that really isn't cartoons? Has SB actually been found to promote obscene amounts of silliness
and random goofy behavior?
These are things that I would like to know... perhaps they have an age check for any DVD's, in case they are Rated-R? I buy DVD's so infrequently, I really have no idea if that is the case.

alien v predator

Or bunny vs. cat. The other night on a walk around the neighborhood, I glanced over and coming out of the shrubs on the side of someone's lawn, was a cat. The cat had something in its mouth-- looked bigger than a mouse but I couldn't tell what it was carrying. Cory went up to look and to
our horror, it had a BUNNY in its chompers! Poor bunny! Well that scared the cat, who dropped the bunny, and that bunny hopped away, to safety (at least for the time being). Do cats eat bunnies? It was a little bunny.

The light is green, so you go...

That is usually what happens, right?

Last night we're driving down our road, and about a mile down the road from the house slow to a yellow light, turning red. There is one car in front of us. The light turns green.
The guy in the car in front of us opens the door and gets out of his car. Which is a little weird but there's really no one else on the road. I figure he's going to get something out of the back or trunk. But he continues to walk back to our car and stops, and Cory lowers the window.
And the guys asks if we own the house for rent -- seriously this is already 1 mile down the road! We telll him to contact the company=- their name/number is on the sign-and the guy waddles back to his car and gets in.
REALLY? For real? That is creepy and weird. First, he was AHEAD of us, so how did he even know to stop and ask us? Second, really? You stop your car at the GREEN light, risk causing an accident, to get out and ask about a house for rent? For real? You couldn't go back and stop your car and take down the number?!?
WEIRD. This is probably one of the weirdest things to happen (in Ames).

sp. part ii, etc.

Shoeless guy wore shoes to class on Friday. Maybe it was for the exam? Or maybe it was because it was raining. Don't know. They were those slip-on type slides/sandal things. He has pretty gnarly toes, I gotta say.
Also, the little bunny in our yard is super cute and loves to eat dandelions.
And finally, if you go to the Resource Recovery Plant to dispose of your garbage thru the county
(and not pay stupid prices for private garbage pick-up), be prepared for the stench. It is
overpowering.
And be depressed by some of the stuff people throw out.
Sad. And Smelly.