Ever see somebody or a situation and wonder what the backstory is? Perhaps something like Robert Altman's Short Cuts or Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia where a series of strangers' lives intersect at various points.

I am in Atlanta for the weekend and was driving to Buckhead earlier today. Just as I pass Oglethorpe University on Peachtree Industrial, I see somebody waiting at the bus stop. It was an older handicapped gentleman in a high-tech wheelchair and he was carrying two large birdcages. Each cage had a large bird in it. Couldn't tell what type of birds though.

So there he was waiting for the bus. I thought of Short Cuts and Magnolia. I wondered what his morning was like, and how he ended up with two large birds waiting to get on a bus, and where he was going.