{"id":39,"date":"2012-01-05T02:27:44","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T02:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/?p=39"},"modified":"2012-01-05T02:27:44","modified_gmt":"2012-01-05T02:27:44","slug":"366-unusual-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=39","title":{"rendered":"366 unusual things: days 1 – 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every day I see or hear at least one thing that makes me look, or listen, twice, because it’s not something I was expecting.\u00a0 Here are the unusual things I’ve seen so far this year, this leap year, when there will be 366 days.\u00a0 A bonus unusual thing.<\/p>\n

1st Jan:\u00a0 The housing tenants across the street welcomed the new year with coprolalia.<\/p>\n

2nd Jan:\u00a0 A thin dirty woman in a mini-skirt, ankle socks slipping into her clogs, was walking past the video store, hugging the glass wall.\u00a0 She stopped to pick up a dead half-cigarette, pulled out a lighter, lit the cigarette and smoked it.<\/p>\n

3rd Jan:\u00a0 Neighbour no. 1 phoned and neighbour no. 2 emailed to tell us that neighbour no. 3\u00a0 is a police informer with a gun.<\/p>\n

4th Jan:\u00a0 My son’s new employer, a jeans shop owner, wants him to wear their $300 jeans.\u00a0 They’re made with special bacteria and can’t be washed.\u00a0 The bacteria eats the dirt.<\/p>\n

5th Jan:\u00a0 A pretty twentyish blonde girl serving me at the car repair place bent over to write down my details.\u00a0 I saw ‘Joshie’ tattooed in beautiful black copperplate across her left breast.<\/p>\n

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Fertile Ground:\u00a0 In a long crack in a short concrete wall, a Johnny-jump-up grows, unwatered and ignored until now.\u00a0 Years ago they grew\u00a0 in a pot plant near the little wall, a very poor specimen which I abandoned.\u00a0 Hope reigns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every day I see or hear at least one thing that makes me look, or listen, twice, because it’s not something I was expecting.\u00a0 Here are the unusual things I’ve seen so far this year, this leap year, when there will be 366 days.\u00a0 A bonus unusual thing. 1st Jan:\u00a0 The housing tenants across the … <\/p>\n

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