What was the Story Behind That?

[3113]

Ever seen something where you wondered "What was the story behind that" Happened to me today. I'm walking home from the gym and I'm at a commercial corner by a community center waiting for the light to change. There are two of those plastic sandwich-board type things that real estate people put out when they have a Sunday open house.

Like this:
http://www.watsonsign.com/portfolio/category_aframes.jpg

Now these two signs aren't blocking the pedestrians or the very wide corner (this is not some small street I'm on), nor are they in front of anyone's private little business or home. They're just out on the street corner to point people and cars to this open house. I'm waiting for the light. A woman comes up. She looks angry. She doesn't bump into the signs or anything like that. But she grabs both of them, picks them up so they fold, hauls them to the curb, and then tosses them like trash into the street!

They were too heavy to toss far or she might have caused an accident, but !bang-bang! they went, one atop the other into the gutter there. Then she stormed away. I didn't get the feeling that she'd come to that corner just to toss the signs, but rather that she was striding on down the sidewalk in a foul mood, saw them, and decided to show, well, whomever, how she felt about them.

Wonder what the story was behind that.

What "What was the story?" events or scenes have stuck in your mind?

 

[oggbashan]

I can think of two reasons:

1. She has a blind friend or relation. A-Boards can be a serious nuisance if you have limited or no sight.

2. She has just been repossessed.

Og

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

3113

I have a neighbor with BiPolar Disorder and Borderline Personality, plus she has Krohms Disease. She does deeds such as you report.

Friday she brought out a dustpan filled with cigarette butts and dumped them in the middle of the street. Sometimes she cuts the screen on neighbors pool enclosures. Occasionally she slashes tires in the neighborhood. Usually when she's upset about a sour relationship or being fired.

It's how she copes with her overwhelming anger.

 

[sr71plt]

We just had that happen in our town, so I can weave a story for that. The woman owns a store on a pedestrian mall up the street from city hall (which also fronts on the pedestrian mall). For years, she's been been putting out sales sign boards in front her here shop. In fact, other stores have been putting out book carts and such for years, and restaurants have begun to claim space on the pedestrian mall for outside seating. Tibetans have set up a few sidewalk vendor stalls. Street side musicians are playing here and there.

It seems that everyone is enjoying this and the mall is filling up nicely every day of walkers and buyers.

But a new city employee has dug up a forgotten law against sign boards on the mall (still digging to find ones banning outside restaurant seating, book carts--except she just found that law now also, apparently--Tibetan vendors, and street-side musicians)--and the woman is fined heavily for her sign board violation and they are confiscated.

The next day, she's walking down the sidewalk outside city hall and there's a signboard on the sidewalk advertising "take your city employee to lunch" day.

That's where you came into the scene.

 

[SlickTony]

Either sounds credible, but I'm betting the latter, simply because I believe that foreclosures are more common than blindness these days.

 

[TE999]

I have seen people trashing (presumably rival candidates) political signs which during a campaign sprout like mushrooms on every roadside and most yards.

Technically that's damaging private property (a felony or a misdemeanor depending on the value of said property), but I've never heard of anyone being proscecuted for doing it.

 

[TE999]

Stupid double post!

Is it just me or are the pages loading slowly (or not at all) tonight?

 

[oggbashan]

Our local council has a regulation banning obstructions on the pavement/sidewalk.

Unless you pay them for a licence...

Og

 

[SlickTony]

I have seen people trashing (presumably rival candidates) political signs which during a campaign sprout like mushrooms on every roadside and most yards.

When we were in Louisiana, my daughter's best friend was a black girl, and this girl and her somewhat earnest date had some good clean fun pulling up every David Duke sign they could get their hands on.