Stepping Out

Stepping out on a downtown walk with my dog Romeo, I saw a man wearing a yellow hard hat blowing his nose into the air, alternating nostrils. A man with a scorpion tattoo covering the left side of his face was driving an orange asphalt paver. Men in blue hard hats were straddled on top of steel gray beams bolting them together. Other men nearby were awaiting the crane to lift a pile of steel beams. A curvy hipped woman in bell-bottoms and platform shoes was running across the traffic. A big yellow school bus was idling at the corner. A detective was entering a gray truck that had dark tinted windows.