Hey, hey,Hitchin' a Ride...

Ride bumming wierdness followed me in my errands this past Day Off.

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King Richard's Faire began in Carver up the road on Labor Day, n sometimes they'll be strange non-local characters hanging about.

On my way between store hopping on the busiest traffic island was a tall, thin girl in a flannel shirt (looking like she was a Carverite), pacing back n forth n looking starved n cold in the cool breeze. She stared at the drivers stopped at the lights. She carried a crinkled cardboard sign, "I'm passing through the area, I'm down on my luck. Can you help me?" Panhandling isin't extinct. I saw lots of people giving her dollars, so I didn't feel guilty about not having anything to pass out the window.

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Hopefully she caught a ride n a spot to crash, n not arrested, or kidnapped, cause she was gone a few minutes later on my way back. That's a dangerous thing she was doing, n perhaps she was dangerous herself. What a way to live!

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I'm having a quality issue with a new employee messin up my stuff at the drugstore with my one-hour prints who forgot to make the CD I ordered, so I had to go back the next day for it. In the course of my normal planned busy Day Off condensed errand run, I cleaned out the stuff laying around the truck cab in preparation of stopping in at the oil-change place on the way back. Normally the passenger seat is covered with work-related n emergency gear with no room for sitting. Change n odd items have previously dissappeared before, so now I hide all stuff in the locked cap.
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In line at the drug store, I was greeted by a stranded neighbor, who'd just missed the last trolley of the day. Our kids were all friends on the block growing up. She's been having many health issues, n I know her well, so I changed my planned itinerary to drive her back home n backtracked to the oil place. I rarely waste fuel like that, but it was worth saving her the pain.

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I just thought it was magical that I had just before bumping into her, cleared off the place for her to sit! Also, I wouldn't have been there then at all if the picture person hadn't messed up.

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On my way for fuel I saw yet a third person seeking a ride, a large guy thumbing down the Avenue. Maybe this is a cool-day surprize trend or some kind of sign...

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After getting back home for the day, openning mail, n putting supplies away, I go to load up the latest round of pics in the puter. That new girl has much to learn, cause she screwed up again- the entire slide show is upsidedown! Upsidedown watery sunsets, garden pics, n house construction, I can't believe it! What a dweeb-

TG I have a paint program to rotate them all, cause I'm not willing to go back out there a fourth time for one roll.

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Is that a sign too? (of what?)