There’s this woman

I see at least twice a week on my way to lunch and she walks up and down main street

in her fashionable Spring coat, with her her giant handbag  swinging from her shoulder and I swear to God when I see her walking by I want to jump on the hood of a car and start singing the lyrics from

The Mary Tyler Moore Show at the tops of my lungs..

She just has that air about her.

About a week ago she goes cruising by when I see her stop at a stop sign and she walks around it, reaches up and pats it and then she does the same  thing to a street sign and then one of those construction barracades signs and even a Pay and Park Station.

A few days later she walks by and does the same thing- so I’m curious. I go around to the back of the Stop sign I see there are these little tiny kangaroo stickers stuck to the bottom of the sign – there’s dozens of them some are new and some have obviously been there for awhile.

The same for the Pay Station those freaky little stickers are everywhere and if you didn’t know to look you wouldn’t really notice them.

So I’m talking to friend of mine and I start telling him about the Nutty Lady and the Kangaroo stickers.

” She’ not nuts, she’s one of those Guerilla Artists.”

And then I learned that Guerilla Artists are all about making statements with their  art and then I guess detaching themselves from them.

” So she’s saying she likes Kangaroos and then walking away from like-what? Making a statement about liking Kangaroos? That’s pretty cold hearted. I like Wolves, but I wouldn’t stick tiny little Wolf stickers on the backs of signs, I’d stick them on the front. And they’d be big. Not fingernail sized things, that’s for sure. “

My friend looks like if he ever hears about Kangaroos again he’s going to stab himself in the ear with pen just to spare himself the grief.

So I drop it.

For now.

So for days I’m wondering if maybe I should say ” Hi ” to the Kangaroo Lady with the expensive handbag – you know in way of showing my appreciation for her artistic endeavors.

And sure enough I get my chance when I pass her on the street at lunch time as usual. 

She does the sticker thing and as she’s walks away this Homeless Guy from the shelter up the street says to me, ” last time I defaced public property they tossed my sorry ass in jail.”

” It’s a fact, ” I tell  him ” life is not fair and the Justice system is the least fair of all.”

” That’s God’s truth, my Sister, God’s own truth.”

I don’t know who you are Kangaroo Sticker Chick, but if you are an artist you it may interest you to know that on Main Street one of your fans is a guy who pees in public and a woman who isn’t afraid to talk to a guy who pees in public.

We are better then nothing I suppose.