Thursday, August 13, 2009

MEET THE DRIBBLER ... AT 7TH AND MONTANA!


Ladies and Gentlemen, meet the Dribbler, a Neighborhood Newcomer with a most annoying habit. Every morning at 7:30, he walks up and down the length of 7th Street bouncing a basketball, leaving a perpetual 'boing, boing, boing' in his wake. The sound has a tendency to echo off nearby homes and worm its way into your consciousness like some kind of audible Chinese Water Torture. "That's it," I said as he walked by Starbucks this morning, "I've had it ... This Kobe Tyrant must be stopped!" I followed him to his lair which, not surprisingly, turned out to be Goose Egg Park and watched from a safe distance as he hid his basketball in a tree. Then, like so many before him, he assumed the posture of a Ninja Master and began practicing a series of Goofball Maneuvers. Mark my words, one of these days when he least expects it, that Basketball is going to disappear ...!


5 comments:

Rose said...

I suppose if I practiced "People Watching" more (which used to be a favorite thing to do during lunchtime when I was working) I must have some goof balls in my area too! LOL

Go make that basketball diappear!

Hugs, Rose

Dawn said...

Go get that ball! LOL

be well...

garnett109 said...

Marty here in wilkes - barre pa we have a lot of goofballs to , if you need more i'll send some your way

Beth said...

The sound of a dribbling basketball is actually sort of normal and comforting to me. :) But then every other house here has a basketball hoop (as does ours)!

Ken Riches said...

Perhaps I should start dribbling on the deck around the house in the morning, to give Beth soothing sounds :o)