Dear Blogsters -
One just never knows what the day will bring.
Picture this: I'm sitting in my car, in the left turn lane, waiting for the light to change. A small, older truck lurches up on my right, seeming to hesitate a little as it pulls next to me.
I glance over - the driver is alone -
and, let's just say....
she has come to a full stop.
I must have looked agog because she brought her hands up to cover her face,
and then threw them upward in a shrug and looked away.
Mercifully, the light changed,
I made my turn and that was that.
Except - my mind can't seem to leave it alone.
I've been through lists of movies (Coming Home, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner,
Comes A Horseman, Come Back, Little Sheba), then music (Here Comes the Bride,
Come Together, Slow Train Comin', Comin' 'Round the Mountain) and finally books -
stopping myself with "Something Wicked This Way Comes"...
Maybe I'm naive, but I've truly never considered that sort of multi-tasking while driving.
Perhaps I don't get out enough.
Forgive me if this post is too off-color for any of you,
but some experiences are like gaseous fumes and
must be dispersed to be dispelled.
Sincerely,
Your ever-intrepid observer
bs
8 comments:
OK. This is where I have to come out and admit that once, when I was younger and much more randy and ignorant of the various outlets available to people-- or maybe, back then, they didn't exist-- I had a magazine that I had just purchased, and was driving home with it, and was maybe perusing it at a light and maybe I got distracted and rear-ended the car in front of me. It was minor, and I didn't tell my parents, with whom I was living at the time, but it haunted me that the man would come after me with a law suit.
Jumpin' Jiminy!
"By the prickling of my thumbs, something evil this way comes!"
I must be slow this morning (brain damage from last night's whiskey?) 'cause I don't catch the drift here ... maybe I should go have a cuppa coffee, or two, or three.
What is funny to me is the woman's embarrassment. I mean, she did know she was out in public, right? Seems to me she might have just blown you and kiss and gone on with her day... Ta ta!
Or did I misinterpret and then totally embarrass myself here?!
leftfield.
even so enough food for thought to last a lunchtime.
Hmmm - I was worried about offending - and instead I was confusing.
Simply put: RJ - you intepret exactly, kimo sabe.
I almost got into a BAD accident once because a girl was "making my drive more enjoyable"...have not yet attempted a repeat.
Hmmmm,
I believe that is a
Mr. Traffic no-no.
bs
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