For those of you who don't know, I commute about 45 miles to work each day. Sometimes it's a pain, but I've learned you can see a lot of interesting things on the road. If you're a habitual people-watcher, that's a pretty big perk. Today, for instance, I was at a stoplight and I started looking at the guy in the car next to me. Initially, I was looking because the guy had a full-on Napolean Dynamite-style hairdo, a six inch tall bushy, red, curly mass.
It was amusing. However, when we started moving out of the intersection, I noticed that the guy was apparently conducting an orchestra in his car. He was waving his arms around, giving cues to the percussion section and the strings, bobbing his head, meanwhile using NEITHER OF HIS HANDS to drive the car. He was swerving all over the place, but he had this look of beautific joy on his face. If I wasn't so afraid the guy was going to hit me, I would have laughed. Anyway, I just think it pays off to watch the people around you on the road. Because then you can get out of their way.
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Here's the strangest thing I ever saw while on the road. I wasn't actually driving, but riding in a bus, a school bus that was taking members of my high school art club to Minneapolis. We were heading east on I-94 (from Bismarck, North Dakota in 1974). Looking out the window to our right, we saw a villian, complete with handlebar mustache and black top hat, tying a damsel in distress to the railroad tracks along the interstate. We figured they must have been filming for a commercial or something, but we did not see cameras anywhere. And thankfully, we didn't hear about a pedestrian train fatality on the evening news.
Posted by Karen Leno | June 11, 2005 10:07 PM
Posted on June 11, 2005 22:07
Karen, that's so great! Your story is way better than mine! Thanks for sharing. Dan and I laughed so hard.
Posted by Haley | June 12, 2005 7:23 PM
Posted on June 12, 2005 19:23