The Zoo at the Zoo

As I progress further and further into the world of adulthood, I have learned to appreciate new things, one of these being the three-day weekend. What's better than a lengthened weekend and a shortened work week? Well, don't actually answer that because I know that there are plenty of things better than an extra day of vacation, like family, friends and the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness. But on a level of instant gratification a three-day weekend is pretty swell. This past weekend I took advantage of my extra day off and went to the zoo. I thought it was a great thing to do over a three-day weekend, and apparently so did the rest of the DFW metroplex because it was crowded. The crowds caused lines and the lines caused impatience and sometimes this impatience was expressed with a less-than-friendly demeanor. There were 7 of us that went to the zoo together. One of my friends arrived before the rest of us, so she got in line to get a ticket. The line was long, and she was pretty close to the front when the rest of us arrived so a couple of us jumped in line with her to buy tickets for the rest of the group. No harm done, right? Well, not according to the stroller-pushing couple in line behind us. As we got closer to the ticket window and started switching people in and out of line, the man behind us started making comments about having no manners, which made the rest of the wait pretty uncomfortable. We took the moral criticism like adults and got our tickets only to realize that we had 7 people and only 6 tickets. In the distraction of the few words that were exchanged back and forth between "us" and "them," Chris's brother panicked and bought only one ticket when he got to the window, forgetting that he was supposed to buy a ticket for someone else also. So we all ended up waiting while one person stood in line to get another ticket. I guess we got what we deserved. Other than our dramatic entrance everything at the zoo was pretty much how I remembered it; except for the dinosaurs. I dont recall ever seeing dinosaurs in a zoo. I suppose they are, or were, animals but I dont think that if they were still alive I would want to go somewhere to look at them locked up in cages. Anyone remember Jurassic Park? Dinosaurs and zoos do not go together, especially since theyre extinct. Do you know how to put an extinct animal in a zoo without making it a useum exhibit of pictures and bones? You find nice green places along the main walkways, build a replica of the dinosaur, give it a few moving parts and a motor, and add some speakers that emit scary dinosaur noises every now and then. I though it was weird to come to the zoo to see fake animals. Isnt that the opposite of what a zoo is supposed to be?

Streaker?

Did anyone watch the local news on ABC last night, at 10 pm? I wasn't really watching but I looked up when I heard one of those air horns going off during an on-the-scene report, and I swear I saw a naked guy running across the screen Actually, I saw was his backside, white butt and all, but he was obviously naked. The reporter stumbled a little bit and then they switched to a recorded piece. I was just wondering if anyone else caught that.