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February 20, 2006

Caught in an Updraft

Walking down the Avenue today, I saw a gray-bearded African-American guy. He had just finished asking somebody for change, and as he turned toward me I assumed he was about to hit me up next.

Instead, he made a throwing motion with his right hand, out of which flew a paper airplane. A good one, too. It banked upward over my left shoulder and landed well behind me.

I complimented him on this impressive feat of engineering. He grinned and said humbly, "Got caught in an updraft."



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Posted by bill at February 20, 2006 1:16 PM

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I enjoyed this and I would like to request that you include more short prose/observational/essay bits of this sort going forward.

Best wishes,
-Cecil

Posted by: cecil vortex at February 21, 2006 8:51 PM

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