Snapshots of my journey to work

[triskellian]

There's a little blue Fiat that lives at least part of its life in the sidestreet opposite my house where my own car lives. The reason this puzzles me is that I often pass it coming the other way when I'm driving to work. I work in a village in the middle of nowhere with no night-time employment I can think of, and there's no day-time employment visibly available in my local sidestreet. I suppose the Fiat's owner is either having a relationship with someone in my work-village and living in my sidestreet, or vice versa, but I can't help being tempted to write a polite inquiring note and tuck it behind the Fiat's windscreen wipers to ask.

There's a dark red BMW with the number plate 'LAZIO 88' which shares part of my route to work. I recognise 'Lazio' as the name of a football team, and assume '88' means '1988', but what happened then? Is the driver a Lazio fan, and that was the year they won the <mumble> cup? Is he a Lazio hater, and that was the year they suffered crushing defeat at the hands of his preferred team?

There's a middle-aged man in the village who walks his small daughter to school every day. He's short and grumpy and reminds me of my dad, in a way I find rather sweet. He carries his daughter's brightly-coloured rucksack for her.

There's an elderly man with a tiny white terrier dog, who lives just round the corner from where I work. Whether I get into work at eight or half past, he's always walking his dog on the grass verge. Today, in the rain, the dog was wearing a little coat.

I enjoy my journey to work. I like recognising fellow-travellers and watching the progress of the fields and gardens I pass. It's poppy season at the moment, has been for weeks. It started with the little wild red poppies, just a few, scattered on the verges. Then, as their numbers started to increase, the big bright pink cultivated ones appeared. Now there are complicated multi-petal poppies in lots of shades of pink and lilac and red mixed in with the simpler ones. Their flowers look almost like roses.

Comments

[nixieq.livejournal.com]

hmm. the lazio 88 guy might've been a player on that team? or, yeah, maybe that was the year they won whatever cup or something...

i'm glad other people notice these things. even on my short walk (or occasionally, drive) to work, i pass some of the same people almost every day... although i notice the dogs more than the people. this morning i passed somebody who gave me a friendly "hey, howya doin'?" and it was only after we'd passed each other that i realized he was the owner of the aged rescue greyhound up the street. (also, he's got a shaved head but usually wears a hat, which threw me a bit.)

dogs in coats are adorable. >:) hee, the aforementioned greyhound has a coat with her name (i think; it says "Sweetie" -- in quotes, even) that she wears when it's chilly out.