Saturday, August 02, 2025
Two more bits of surrealism while out and about in Boca Raton
I was out driving to grocery store when I saw an old man walking on the street (our neighborhood is sans sidewalks—typical for Lower Sheol), white hair, white moustache, white beard, set off by the entirely black suit he's wearing, along with a heavy black outer coat. Mind you, it's about 90°F outside (30°C for those of you who are not living in one of the three countries in the world to still use the Imperial System). That's not the oddest thing though. No, he's carrying what looks like a small wheel covered completely in fur.
It turns out it's a type of hat the man wears on certain religeous holidays. I wasn't sure what religeous holiday it was, but whatever it was, it apparently requires a hat that looks like a furry wheel while wearing all black.
On a larger road, I fall behind a man riding a motorcycle. The man in question is not wearing a shirt, which, okay, I wouldn't go shirtless on a motorcycle, but hey, it's his choice for a potentially bad case of road rash (to be fair though—he was wearing a helmet, so he wasn't completely blasé about it). Again, that wasn't the odd thing. No, the odd bit was the series of large dots covering just the right side of his back. There were a bit too uniform in shape and placement to be some form of skin condition, yet they didn't look like tatoos either. It almost looked as if he had the right side of his back cupped.
