Sometimes you can see interesting things just driving home from work. First off, the other day, I saw Harrison Ford when I was sitting in traffic at a stop light. OK, it probably was not Harrison Ford. But it looked eerily like him. I was looking in my rear-view mirror, and behind me, idly playing with the air conditioner vents in his car, was this guy who looked EXACTLY like a Regarding Henry era Harrison Ford, but with glasses. It took me a minute to realize that the likelihood that Harrison Ford was sitting in a Ford Taurus in Albuquerque was extremely low, but even then, I kept looking just to make sure it wasn't him. In Albuquerque, that's as close to a celebrity encounter as you're going to get.
Then, I was driving past the golf course near our house, and I saw three high school girls each carrying one of those huge golf bags. I knew they were in high school because of the high level of glossed lips, flippy hair, hip hugger pants, and dangly earrings. Needless to say, the image was hihgly incongruous with the term "gold course." Then, I noticed that there were high school girls ALL OVER the golf course. There were probably 25 of them, in small groups, interspersed with the typical middle aged guys one normally associates with golf courses. Ever since then I've been wondering if it was Take Your Daughter to Golf Day, or if this is some kind of marketing ploy on the part of the golf course. "Look! Golf is, like, hip!" I can't think of any other explanations. Any ideas out there?