X Marks the Spot

I run in Waterloo, NY, the birthplace of Memorial Day. It is a quiet rural community and I love to run there. The sidewalks are the kind that have a strip of land on one side and a yard on the other. Safe, quiet. Or so you would think.

I'm not sure what it means, but on one particular square of concrete, there is a big X. The first time I saw it, thoughts of Road Runner came crashing into my head. Was this some sort of target? Was Wile E Coyote hatching some master plan.? Would I get hit instead of the Road Runner? I ran around it.

I still do. Last week's episode of Weeds on Showtime had a case of soda fall through the roof. Funny, but I didn't think much about it. Until this morning, that is. As I ran around my X in the middle of NY, I was pretty sure that if I hadn't dodged it, a case of soda would have fallen on me.

On the other hand, what if buried treasure.......