Fox Paw

1) Riding the bus this week, I was reading a book, only half aware of the world around me. So, it took a moment for this to register. What finally brought me out of the book and into the bus was a lady exclaiming, "Oh!"
Then it all came together. The bus was at a stop waiting for people to exit and enter. After passengers had exited the bus, a young lady stepped up and in. She saw a little white thing laying on the ground. It must have looked like a bus pass. As she explained to her friends a few seconds later, she thought somebody had lost it. Her reaction to seeing what she thought was a lost bus pass was to say, "Somebody must be blind."
Naturally, on this particular bus, on this particular day, there was a blind lady sitting at the front of the bus. That's who had the "Oh!" exclamation.
You know, it was an honest mistake. I believe the blind lady heard the young lady explaining what happened, though it was directed to her friends and not where it should have been. Of course, then I had thoughts of dad, wondering if he had similar things happen to him. Then I realized that, yes, of course... he did. We used to talk and joke about such situations. Some really had happened, some we imagined. Simply because it was funny.
Then, I started thinking about how dad would have reacted to this occasion, particularly later when we would have talked about it... I had to fight the giggles. I mean, how absurd. Maybe dad and I can laugh about it together one day.

2) Late in the evening I was walking up the sidewalk with a couple friends, all of us having just left a drinking establishment. One friend and I had been people-watching and as we walked outside she said something about catching up the the guy with the dreads. Meaning he had his hair in dreadlocks, of course, Rastafarian style.
But we'd had a couple of beverages and she was talking with her outside voice. Appropriate, no? The guy she was referring to was probably at least a block away. Except... we all suddenly realized that she was following ANOTHER guy with dreads. While using her outside voice. Hence, her voice dropped fully from outside voice to whisper as the whole thing sunk in. There was no trailing off. Her voice just suddenly was whispering. I'm chuckling just thinking about it!
It was kind of dark outside, see, and this guy had dark hair and, well, later it was super hilarious. Luckily he didn't seem bothered by us, even if he did think we were talking about him. But I'm sure he figured out we were harmless.

3) There was a 3rd event that I can't remember. If it comes to mind I'll add number 3, officially. Things sometimes happen in 3's anyway, right?