Things you see in the street

[fpb]

Last night I was coming home from some emergency shopping, and it was snowing heavily. The street was deserted except for a young man of twenty or so, and as I came by he bent over to scoop up some snow. I stopped to look (and to make sure that the snowball would not be aimed at me as I went past - just in case, since I could not see anyone else within snowballing range). The lad straightened up, completed his snowball, and, snowball in hand, marched into the local Indian restaurant. At this point I'd got really curious - I was half certain that he intended to surprise someone with it, and wanted to see it; and the restaurant had fairly clear windows, through which you can see if you don't worry about being embarrassed. I watched him through those windows, and I saw him ask one waitress, and then go up to another - a very pretty one - and hand her the snowball.

It's a funny old world, all right. Some of us romance girls by giving them flowers or chocolate, some give poetry, some perfume. But it was the first time I ever saw a young man give a pretty young woman a snowball.

Comments

[sabethea.livejournal.com]

Oh, but it is such a lovely story :) Bizarre, but splendidly pleasing!

[arhyalon.livejournal.com]

That is really cute.

[thefish30.livejournal.com]

Thank you for sharing that with us! It makes such good mental pictures.

[eliskimo.livejournal.com]

That's terribly sweet.
May I share it?

[fpb.livejournal.com]

By all means.

[frittomisto.livejournal.com]

Salve Fabio,

I like it! But just out of curiosity, why do you suppose the boy asked one waitress and then went to the pretty one instead of going directly to his love interest? I actually woke up this morning here in freezing and snow-covered Rome wondering. Was it to ask permission or was the place so big that he had to ask the girl's whereabouts (unlikely - I mean if you saw her through the window, he would've seen her as well). Was it really Romance?

[fpb.livejournal.com]

No idea. I can't lip-read. My guess was that he was asking where she was; that is what I felt at the time, and now I don't remember enough to be any more sure one way or another.

I heard about Rome. It sounded charming, I am told, unti you had work to do, when it just boiled down to an unmitigated nuisance - is that your experience? - especially since the incompetent we've got for a Mayor panicked and shut down all public offices for no good reason, leaving the rest of the city in the lurch.