Yesterday, on the outskirts of downtown Minneapolis, I saw a tumbleweed. It lay there in the middle of the street, ready to tumble onward with its metaphorical implications of desolation, while dozens of cars drove on around it. How it ended up in downtown Minneapolis, we'll never know (speculators guessed it fell off the back of a truck, but what would a tumbleweed be doing on the back of a truck?). Perhaps the Coen Brothers are back in town.
Then today on my way to work, traffic was really backed up. Unfortunately, it wasn't the tumbleweed holding things up, but there was "debris on the road" (that's what the big sign said). They closed a lane because of debris? A) We can probably drive on debris, and B) Did we get bombed? Then I discovered that a semi overturned and crashed into the median barrier and knocked chunks of pavement onto a lane. Hence the debris. So if anybody's taking 35W, watch out.
3 comments:
I think I saw that tumbleweed.
I saw one on the ramp to get onto 394 - is that where you saw it?
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(kjick puppy)
It was at the homeless outreach, so very near there.
of all the tumbleweeds and all the cities....this one tumbled it's way into both our lives on the same day and we both made mental note of it. Or something poetic.
pxdcrx
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