Strange Days...

It's been an absolute age since last I posted and quite frankly, I have no excuse. Ok, I had an op on my foot and recovery wasn't fun, but should that have stopped me? And I've been busy - with work, with friends, with moving into a new house, but should those things have prevented me blogging? Surely if writing the odd post is something you want to do, you'll prioritise it and get it done regularly? Apparently, not so. But all things aside, I'm back and I'm making a fresh start. So...

Today I want to talk about weird things. You know, when you're merrily going about your day and you witness something just, well, odd, and you realise that some people are just weird. For instance, in an effort to find boxes for my recent move I popped into the local Pick 'n Pay to ask if they had any and while I waited I watched a man behave strangely. He walked up to where the eggs were stacked, chose the smallest box and then, without skaam, transferred a box of jumbo eggs into the place of the little eggs, which he placed carefully into the "jumbo" box. Who does that?

And then later in the day I watched a man walk down the eisles in Checkers and help himself to cans of food which he placed inside his oversized jacket. When I pointed this out to a person packing shelves, he stopped, watched the man, and then shrugged at me and went back to work. Amazing. Truelly amazing.

And that's not all, I've now become alert to this weirdness and I've been seeing all sorts of weird things ever since, almost like I went through a one day initiation of weirdness and now I'm alert to it. I live in a special city, Cape Town, but now I'm seeing all kinds of "special". As my friend A would say; "That's a special kind of f***ed up right there!"

What strange or notable things have caught your eye lately? I'm not talking oh-my-god-bring-down-the-city kind of weird, just, well, odd stuff.

Yours in pursuit of odd
A.