{"id":202,"date":"2010-01-19T04:43:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T04:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/?p=202"},"modified":"2010-01-19T04:43:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T04:43:00","slug":"the-back-has-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/?p=202","title":{"rendered":"The Back Has It"},"content":{"rendered":"

The unseasonably nice weather continued here and boy is it great! Molly and I went walking and it was close to 50 degrees this afternoon. The downside is that there are sometimes rather strange people out walking when we are.<\/p>\n

This afternoon was a case in point: a lady and her teenage daughters were walking in front of us at about the same speed. Molly and I got the pleasure of following them from about 20 yards to the rear for a couple of miles. That in and of itself isn’t interesting; the fact that the lady and her daughters were carrying on a discussion in voices that approached foghorn levels was.<\/p>\n

I was a bit confused over their topic of discussion for the first part of the walk. I was torn between believing that the topic was basketball, soccer, or vinyl siding. Some of the phrases I overheard were:<\/p>\n

“It is so big that I can’t fit it through the hoop.”<\/i>
“Mine is so straight and thin that everything keeps falling off.”<\/i>
“I’m jealous of you because mine won’t fill them out.”<\/i>
“I’m jealous because mine won’t fit in the gap.” <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, the bits and snippets Molly and I overhead were tantalizing but very uninformative as to what exactly was being discussed in such stentorian tones.<\/p>\n

After 15 minutes, the conversation became clearer. They were discussing their derri\u00c3\u00a8res!<\/p>\n

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I still cannot fathom why they felt the need to discuss this topic in such depth and so loudly as they walked in the park, but it kept me entertained.<\/p>\n

Now all I hope for is to see this on tomorrow’s walk:<\/p>\n

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