SIGN FROM ABOVE
A D.C. woman, hoping to wrap up a deal for an event she was hosting, took time to read through the contract at an outdoor plaza.
Her brow wrinkled as she found herself coming up with question after question about some fishy provisions and paragraphs. But since the contract was due the next day, she thought she would go ahead and sign it.
Just then, bird poop dropped from on high, onto her envelope. The woman took it as a sign and decided not to sign it.
URBAN SCROUNGERS
Dining outside at a Bethesda Row sandwich shop one night, a Kensington couple discovered they had a couple of visitors.
As they were finishing up their sandwiches, they were surprised to see a raccoon standing up on his hind legs leaning up against a trash can a couple feet away, obviously looking for some tasty morsels.
The raccoon had a friend, but he was a little shier and stayed behind in the bushes.
After several minutes of looking around for scraps, they headed back into the sewer. The couple surmised that the raccoons were traveling in the sewer tunnels below the restaurant-filled streets of Bethesda and would pop up again at another trash can, where maybe they would have better luck.
BREAKING THE 30-SECOND RULE
On a morning coffee run, two co-workers waiting for the walk light to change discovered the sidewalk corner was littered with candies. They were orange, red and yellow, and looked a tad like smushed Dots.
“Candy!” the man exclaimed, reaching toward the sidewalk.
“Don’t do that!” shrieked his female colleague, swatting his arm.
Looking up, mortified, she caught the eye of a woman standing with her three small boys. The woman smiled back at her.
When the light changed, the female worker looked back as she crossed the street to observe one of the little boys now reaching for the candy, and his mother pulling her son away.
SPREADING CHEER
A woman living north of H Street was walking to the Metro station when she was excited to see a mural halfway completed on the less-than-picturesque liquor store around the corner from her house.
“Good job!” she told the young man kneeling beside the painting.
“Oh, it wasn’t me,” he said.
But he could not curb her enthusiasm.
“Well, good job anyway!”
A LITTLE HALLOWEEN PREP
Dressing like a pirate has a time and a place. But sometimes it’s just a little embarrassing.
Two parents of a toddler gamely donned brightly colored silk scarves on their heads after their daughter dressed up as a pirate and begged them to, also.
Then they went outside to water their Capitol Hill garden. All was well and good, the three pirates weeding and watering a sapling. Until a neighbor popped outside and said hello.
The mother realized the toddler had abandoned her pirate get-up, leaving Mom and Dad as the only mateys left on the ship.
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