OK. It has been a while since I have had time to post, and thankfully there have been no shortage of stupid acts in that time to inspire me. This one however takes the cake.
I have been out of town a great deal of late, so little things like going to the grocery store in the evening to pick up a few things is enjoyable. One night last week as I came out of the store, around dusk, something in the corner of the parking lot caught my eye. I put the grocery bags in the car and then stood there for a minute trying to figure out what it was. As the object that caught my attention began to gain altitude I realized that this was a very small, home made, hot air balloon. It appeared to be a linen or paper construction and what had caught my eye was the lighting of the heat source at the base of this balloon.
Now, I love balloons, and I even think fire is kind of cool, but obviously there is a time and a place. The time is definitely not around the first day of summer as forest fires rage in Colorado and the foothills here have been described as "fuel, waiting for a spark." The place is most definitely not in a grocery store parking lot less than half a mile from the base of said foothills.
I hope that this "air craft" landed without incident, or better yet didn't land at all and is now sending photos from space back to earth, but I somehow doubt that.
A little common sense can go a long, long way!!
Bravo!
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