Sebastopol tidbits

Returning from a walk, I saw someone I knew in the parking lot by the Teen Center.  It looked like a kid-friendly event was coming to an end, lots of parents and children walking to their cars.  I asked her how the event was, and her response:  "It was nice.  There always seems to be a number of Sebastopol feral children running around at something like this.  I don't know where their parents disappear to.  But it was fun."

Another afternoon I was walking by the Teen Center and a woman was asking about a class that was just starting.  Someone else, standing at the door, said to her pointing:  "It's in the room over there.  Just follow all those women with the long, flowy pants."

I was asked if I wanted to buy some Girl Scout cookies one day outside a grocery store.  I shook my head, as I can't have refined sugar or dairy right now.  But I was curious.  "Has anyone asked about gluten-free cookies?" I inquired.
One of the girls smiled and nodded her head.  The scout leader standing behind her started laughing.  "Gluten-free, sugar-free.  Somebody asked if we had organic ones.  I mean really, we are talking about Girl Scout cookies.  There's nothing special about them just because we're in Sebastopol." 

Waiting outside the library for someone, I heard a twenty-something complaining to her friend about texts from her "crazy landlord."  She started to read one and muttered, "It is probably something really important like which aromatherapy candle she ran out of."

Favorite pet name:
Blissful  (a small white dog)

From an email:
"You've got to love driving through Whole Foods at dusk and having a man dressed in tie-dye sweats from head to toe step right in front of your car and walk slowly just at the particular angle where you can't go to the left or right.  Just have to slowly follow him as he walks aimlessly nowhere." 

And my sister and I watch the Oscars last night in a bar.  Right next to a sign that said, "You Are Loved."


Favorite license plates:
IAMAGEM
RX YOGA
B NICER





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