Here is a picture from my webcam, facing onto the street near my house in Munich. As you can see we have snow ! I’m off home tomorrow for a sun holiday, where the temperature should be at least 12°C warmer !
Naming People You don’t know
Here is another piece from inside my head. Do you ever find yourself giving names to people you see all the time but you don’t know their real names ? For example, we have two local bums that hang around our area, one guy (Charles) who stands at the S-Bahn ticket area begging and asking for change, and then there is another one (Jasper) who hangs around where our front door and where the newspaper vending machines are. Jasper likes to ask for 20c or 10c. I find that if I can put names on people I see regularly, I feel a little more at ease. There are people who I see probably twice or more a week on the S-Bahn or in work, who I don’t know, but I recognise them from seeing them before. Like there is this one guy (simon) , who is rather small in stature and wears these special shoes that give him an extra inch. I’ve notice this guy many times, and his ‘high heals’, so I gave him a name. Do you mentally baptise people you don’t know ? Or is it just me and my over observance ?
You name your familiar strangers.. Interesting.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Familiar_stranger
Sometimes w/ a friend or date I find it fun to hang out in a public place, peoplewatch and tell each other amusing lies, made up on the spot, about the strangers we see. (“She really works for the CIA but she pretends to work as a grocery store cashier. He’s been going out with her for 2 months and still doesn’t know her secret, but she doesn’t know about his vasectomy.” etc. etc.) I guess giving them names makes it better yet.
Thanks for the link Sean. It’s funny that you might see people every day for years and not know their name. I avoid them by baptising them myself.
People watching and wondering where they are going is something I like too. It’s something to pass those nice summers outdoors.