ooh jynx what a wonderful thread idea! i love the absurd, it makes me so happy
some of my best absurd stories come from the ann arbor diag when i was in college. one day i was walking through when i noticed something in a tree. i glanced up, expecting to see a bird or a squirrel, but the thing didn't seem to be the right shape. i walked over to get a better look, and realized that it was
a l o b s t e r.
not a bright red cooked one either.
it was a particularly dead shade of greyish blue.
i looked around to see if someone was watching and giggling, but everyone else was just going about their business.
being a curious hands-on sort of person, i tried to reach it, but even on my tiptoes i was too short. so i stepped back and just stared at the thing. i was totally floored. gobsmacked, as my grandmother would say. i tried to imagine scenarios where a lobster crawled across the diag and up the tree and of course had no success with that. after a few minutes of staring silently, i realized that i was not likely to get any explanation, and continued on my way.