That was weird.

Just now driving back from 7-Eleven (executive lunch). Carrollton, Texas. I’m crossing Marsh Lane from the west while a mother in sweat pants with a baby and baby stroller is crossing Marsh Lane from the east. She gets that smile, that Something is Wrong smile, and I think nothing of it. Then she starts falling. The process of falling, beginning-to-end, takes about a month. Finally bam! and she’s down on one knee, then basically face plants, and now baby stroller is capsized and the baby, while still firmly strapped down, is staring at the sky. Need I remind you this is all taking place on Marsh Lane in Carrollon, Texas during lunch rush hour?

About all I can do is gawk. Stopping in the intersection to help would have risked a pile-up, and she did not want that baby within ten feet of a pile-up. Besides, she was back on her feet by the time I would have come to a stop. The way she tripped, though, is exactly the way I would have tripped if I’d trod upon an unseen piano. What the hell? Climate change causing unseen rivers of air that are totally unnavigable?

Like I said, don’t laugh. Tonight the Karma Police are out in full:

That was The Dresden Dolls and Smoosh covering Radiohead’s überclassic.