the randomness that is my life...

Random: purposeless (this is the definition according to Webster's New World Dictionary)

Now, I don't know, maybe these things are completely normal, but some how I have a feeling the answer is "NO"! I always happen to see some of the most random things EVER, and some of the time people are with me, which makes me feel better about it all, because at least there is someone else there to witness and back me up on the story, however there are times that things happen or I see things and I am totally by myself. Those are the times that warrant an immediate phone call to the most likely person to believe me (Angela or my sister). Now having said that here are a few of the random things that I have witnessed...ones with an asterisk (*) beside them occurred while I was by myself.

1. (this one occured just yesterday) My friend Angela and I were driving down the access road in Abilene--if you are familiar with Abilene it was between S. 7th and Southwest Drive, very near to Betty Hardwick Center--and there was a truck that was exiting the gas station and merging onto the highway, when all of a sudden, no lie, the hood flew up! I saw it happen and said "um...that guys hood just flew up" and then I just had to laugh...had the guy never seen Tommy Boy, did he not know that if the hood was not properly closed then it could fly up blocking your view of traffic, which is never a good thing.
2. I believe it was last summer, I had gone to Chick-fil-a to get a little something to eat (because their chicken is addictive) and while I am sitting in the drive thru line (between the ordering speaker and the window) I see a family get out of their surburban or tahoe or whatever large SUV it was. Ok, so the story starts pretty normal, but wait...the family proceeds to go inside, except the mother. She stays at the SUV and begins to pull out a blanket. She then takes the blanket and lays it on the grass which is right in front of the SUV and begins to tan!*
3. One time while driving home to Abilene, at about Ranger hill, I looked over at the car next to me and there was (no lie) a parakeet walking back and forth in the back of the car (you know the part that is like a dash board but in the back of the car). Now someone expects to see a dog or even perhaps a cat back there, but a parakeet!*
4. While driving to North Dallas one day on the George Bush, there was a little bitty sports car type thing, probably a Nissan or Toyota (but not like a camry or anything like that...the sports car) and the car had a bike tied to the back of it. Almost certain the bike was bigger than the car. I seriously slowed down and got my phone out and let the sports car/SUV get in front of me so that I could snap a photo of the situation in order to show people.*

Now...I know there are more and when I started writing this blog I had a whole bunch in my brain, but these are the ones that stand out to me the most...

What is the most random thing you have ever seen?