On my way home yesterday…
Okay, so I’m a little under the weather.
Basically, as described to Travis, I feel like dog shit. Dog shit that got run over by a big truck and then burned in a trash can. Vaguely.
So I’ll make this short and sweet. Huh, that just got a country song stuck in my head. Weird.
Yesterday, while driving home from work, I encountered the following:
1. Three police cars (a total of six police officers) screeched up with flashing lights and sirens (one of them performed an illegal U-turn on red at an intersection) to…arrest a man who was calmly sitting on a concrete retaining wall with his lunch box. Not moving. Not waving a gun in the air. Just sitting. CALMLY.
2. A woman walked into the middle of the street, into oncoming traffic to stand in the middle lane and do some kind of jig. The police officers were only about a mile away harassing the man with the lunch box. This woman got to perform without their aid.
3. An SUV that had been driven INTO a home. Cause for several more police officers, a fire truck, and an ambulance. Oh, and a LOT of traffic.
4. A woman parked in the middle of the aisle in a parking lot, blocking at least five parking spaces. I honked to get her to move. She pulled out of the way, waited until I parked, and then got out of her car to yell at me for stealing her parking space.
5. A member of the Lost Boys. I’m sorry I couldn’t get a picture, but I was driving and I went by him too fast. Suffice to say there was much leather and ’80s hair and at least some makeup.
The country song is still stuck in my head.
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about 6 months ago
I think you’re going to end up as a bullet point on someone else’s list if you don’t stay home, off the road, and get some GD rest. I can call your boss and pretend to be your doctor if that’s what it takes.
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shine Reply:
March 3rd, 2010 at 12:34 pm
At least I can’t run YOU off the road?
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about 6 months ago
Could ya, would ya, ain’t ya gonna, if I asked ya, would ya wanna be my baby tonight?
That one?
TAKE A CHANCE SLOW DANCE MAKE A LITTLE ROMANCE!
Sorry..
What the shit is with Texas?
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shine Reply:
March 3rd, 2010 at 12:34 pm
YES! Wow. How did you know?
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about 6 months ago
I hate when other drivers get mad at me on the road, honking and giving me the “What the fuck are you doing” arms… and I have no clue what the hell they’re so bent out of shape about. I guess us little people just need to learn that there are Kings of the Road (and parking lots) and what they say goes. They don’t need a reason.
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shine Reply:
March 3rd, 2010 at 1:06 pm
I coughed in her face, so I think we’re even.
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about 6 months ago
Ah city-we-live-in. How I love thee. But I’m way Jay on this one…you have pneu-moan-ia…STAY HOME!
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shine Reply:
March 3rd, 2010 at 1:07 pm
Yes, well…
I got nothin’.
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about 6 months ago
You know, I get the icy fingers down my spine when you plug me.
You know. In the blog.
Not in real life. Umm… Yeah. I’m gonna quit now.
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shine Reply:
March 3rd, 2010 at 1:35 pm
I’m impressed with the way you just made it sound like I shoved something in your butt.
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about 6 months ago
OK… disregard the last comment. The internet apparently was impatient with me.
I feel like you were on an episode of Seinfeld with that experience.
And I really wish you would have nabbed that picture of the Lost Boy.
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shine Reply:
March 3rd, 2010 at 1:51 pm
I know. My reflexes really weren’t what they should have been. I have failed you guys.
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about 6 months ago
“arrest a man who was calmly sitting on a concrete retaining wall with his lunch box.”
No way. He was probably scheming. Planning to eat his lunch violently or to look at his lunch box recklessly. You can never trust the quiet, respectful, seemingly-law-abiding ones.
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shine Reply:
March 3rd, 2010 at 2:16 pm
You make a good point, sir.
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about 6 months ago
wow. my commute is SO BORING. i would say i was jealous, except if i passed that much police activity it would increase my travel time by about 3 hours.
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shine Reply:
March 4th, 2010 at 10:58 am
Yeah, I take back roads, so it only added about half an hour.
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about 6 months ago
Ah the joys of Murderville! Why is it that I never see crazy ladies dancing in the street when I’m out an about? No, they wait until I’m home and it’s dark outside; then they yell and run amuck outside my apartment- Not as fun.
PS- I SO wish I knew what lunchbox guy had done. He was probably just a person of interest, but isn’t it better to imagine he fit the description of a crazy sociopath/bank robber who carries a lunch box with him everywhere when he commits his crimes? Pretty sure I saw that on the Law & Order.
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Sean Reply:
March 4th, 2010 at 7:00 am
Graygrrrl – I think I saw the same episode of L&O. It was titled either “Cornered at the Corner” or “A Bridge of Turkey and Rye”. Something like that.
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shine Reply:
March 4th, 2010 at 10:59 am
Oh, I get plenty of yelling and running around outside my apartment. And the sirens. OH, the sirens. ALL NIGHT.
I wish I knew, too. I was trying to watch/listen, but I couldn’t hear over the other traffic.
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about 6 months ago
Probably the man with the lunchbox was eating his dessert before finishing the sandwich and raw vegetables. Thank God someone called 911 and the monster was apprehended!!!!
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shine Reply:
March 4th, 2010 at 12:06 pm
I know I was worried.
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about 6 months ago
I didn’t know you lived in a dystopian post-apocalyptic 80s movie.
P.S. GET BETTER SOON.
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about 6 months ago
Americas most wanted are usually men with lunchboxes sitting calmly on a retained wall.
Only criminals have lunchboxes.
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about 6 months ago
Wow. And I thought where I lived was weird. I kind of feel sorry for concrete lunch guy. That must have been terrible for him. Unless his lunch consisted of crack, in which case, the cops were probably just after that.
And I’m so sorry you’ve got country music stuck in your head. That must be terrible. :/
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about 6 months ago
You write great when sick. You must be fabulous when well.
Such an exciting ride home.
And I know this is the wrong post, but did you really go to a theater for the oscars?
And it was really that bad?
And you stayed there?
Okay okay. I said Spam is delicious so I don’t count.
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GregoryJ Reply:
March 8th, 2010 at 3:54 pm
I honestly don’t know how to change that avatar.
Sorry.
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