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Music, Walks with the dogs

Confounding Expectations

06.12.08 | Comment?

Tuesday was a chilly day, with the temperature in the forties, and an obligingly cold rain soaked the Resident Dogs on our evening walk.  By the time I took the Short-term Dog for a walk it had stopped raining but it still felt like winter to me.  Yesterday was warmer and dry so I went for our evening walk in just shirtsleeves.  We passed a woman walking her dog, and she was dressed as if it had been the evening before, with cap and gloves and sweater.  She even complained to me about the weather, and looked at me in disbelief when I said I was glad it was warmer.  Perhaps her time is out of joint, or else it takes her longer than most to notice weather shifts.

On the way home we passed a house where a man was sitting on his front steps, working on a drawing.  The door behind him was open and a stereo was blasting Portishead for the neighborhood to listen to.  Now I thought the only people who blasted Portishead were gay teenagers riding around in their cars with the stereo up very loud.  I’ll leave that as an open question because I’m quite fond of Portishead, despite not ever having been gay, and despite that when I was a teenager I had no car to drive and if I had been blasting music from any hypothetical car stereo at that time, it would probably have been Iron Maiden.

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