Today was our first frost/freeze warning for the season. And I looked out the window at work to see the grounds crew laying fresh sod and giving it a good 'ol dose of water. Now I'm not a landscaping expert...but I'm pretty certain that frostbitten sod will not produce healthy green grass. Especially since it's about to be covered in snow for the next 6 months.
Money well spent ehhh????
Japanese researcher + limited English + bicycle vs truck = Is this a joke??? Nope. This is how my workday ended. Our visiting scientist with very limited English comes running into the office to get me...
Come. Follow. Accident. (At which point I'm thinking....crap!! he blew up a lab or something.)
Then he says accident...bike...car hit. Huhhh???
Bike...car hit...damaged. Wha????
So I follow him through the research wing, down several flights of stairs, to the ground floor, out the receiving doors...to find an old fella, looking a bit shaken up, lighten' up a smoke, standing next to his truck, and a broken up bicycle on the ground. Apparently, this old fella hit our scientist (riding my boss's bike) with his truck.
OHHHHHH MMMMMM GEEEEE! Little Japanese man....are you okay???
Luckily he was fine...no injuries...or so that's what I took away from our japan-glish conversation. All I know is that real life is funny. It's impossible to make this stuff up!
