Sooner or later, it happens to everybody, even the nerdiest cases. And yesterday, it happened to your hard-working Barista. We visited RL yesterday, and frankly, we have to admit, it wasn't bad.

It all went down like this.

We were innocently tapping away at our laptop, processing our usual digital sausage, when we heard a neighbor screaming at somebody outside. The neighbor, who we'll call T, was (justifiably) angry because the roofers next door were dropping all their crap right onto his driveway. Ok, so that was the lure that got us outside. We wanted to rubberneck because loud yelling is not so common in your upscale neighborhoods. And we thought we should be there if T blew a gasket.

Things calmed down, and we noticed C, who just moved in about two weeks ago, and we managed to finagle a look inside her house. That was fun. After we went back outside, C's black labrador retriever got a visit from the black lab belonging to B. That gave Barista an excuse to go look at B's relatively new deck and ask deck-related questions. And well, it goes on and on. Eventually, we returned and found T happily playing basketball with the Barista's son N. T's driveway had been cleaned up by the roofers, and life was beautiful again.

Actually, now that we write about it, it wasn't all that interesting. It was just, you know, kind of green. It being Spring and all.

May 18, 2005 in Our Favorite Diversions | Permalink