It's amazing what you see and what you find when you don't drive. Today, what I've found.
Walking pretty much everywhere, as I do, you notice things that you wouldn't notice if you're driving here and there. For instance, this past weekend, I found two crumpled up pieces of paper on the ground. One, when uncrumpled, turned out to be a five dollar bill, which bought Loraine and I extra chocolate from the Marquette Food Co-op.
Good thing I was looking down at the ground at that certain moment, right?
The other piece of paper I found was this--
In case you can't read what it says, it states in hand-written script:
“Hi :) my name is David. I've been coming in here the past couple weeks—thats when I first noticed you! I've been trying to think of ways to talk to you...however...I didn't want to bother you at work! Im sorry for this I just think you're sooo cute!”
Wow. I don't know why I found that note on the sidewalk. I don't know if it was a note someone wrote to give to his intended, or if it was written as a script for the guy who wrote it to say out loud. I don't know if the guy who wrote it dropped it, or if the girl (or guy) to whom he intended it tossed it. I don't know the whole story behind it, nor do I know how it ended up on a Front Street sidewalk in Marquette.
I'm just guessing there's an interesting story behind it. What prompted David to write it? Was this something he had tried before, or was it a shot in the dark? Since he was writing it to a person who was working, was it someone working at a business near where I found it, or does it have nothing to do with where the note ended up? And I'm kinda curious—did the note make its way to the person for whom it was intended? Did it work?
Inquiring minds want to know!
I realize the odds are incredibly slim that I'll ever find out the answers to those questions, and that's okay. Sometimes, the story's more interesting, at least in your mind, when you don't know all the answers. However, that note—and the five dollar bill I found—are proof positive that you can come across interesting things when you keep your car turned off and head somewhere on foot.
Tomorrow? An observation based on something I see all the time while out walking.
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