Fire Hydrants

LaGuardia Place

Houston St.

104th and Broadway

1.  That was not my banana peel.

2.  I looked all over for a hole that the fallen fire hydrant could have belonged to but couldn't find one.  I wonder where it came from and how it got there.

3.  I took the third picture while walking north on Broadway.  A half-hour later I was walking south on the same block when the woman on the bike enjoying the Ben and Jerry's milkshake in the photo above passed me.  She had finished her drink and was talking on her cell phone.  How do I remember this?  She had quite a memorable strut to her walk.

4.  (no photo) Earlier on the same day I was in the McNally-Robinson bookstore downtown.  It is a small store.  My cell phone rang.  In answering it I accidentally pushed the speaker button.  At first I didn't realize the phone was on speaker.  I just thought the volume was turned way up on the regular phone.  As I hastily retreated from the store I was madly trying to turn down the volume and talk to the caller, who, unbeknownst to either of us, was talking to the entire store.  It wasn't until I got outside that I figured out that the speakerphone was on.