Wednesday, March 07, 2007

Dubya-sticker alert

So here I am two days ago quietly returning from the dreaded Mac-Shack, the recently repaired double-processor G4 tower resting in silent repose on its side in the rear of the Bucktoothed-Bathtub.
The Mac-Shack is a long way from West Bloomfield; at least 50 minutes, an hour in bad weather.
It was a-snowin’ and a-blowin’.
I hadn’t gone far — I was still on Penfield Road.
I pulled adjacent to a faded metallic-blue Neon with garish orange flames painted on the front. It had a giant aluminum wing bolted to the trunk causing pock-marks.
It was the intersection of Penfield Road and Panorama Trail, which has left-turn lanes. —I was going straight on Penfield Road; the Neon was turning left onto Panorama Trail towards East Rochester.
Suddenly the driver of the Neon began twitching madly and bouncing up and down.
I turned away for fear the guy would be embarrassed I noticed.
What have we got here: a guy having an epileptic seizure before my very eyes?
But I noticed as I turned away the guy was madly fingering an imaginary guitar fretboard, and was wearing tiny earphones.
The left-turn arrow changed, so the Neon leapt ahead.
I still had a red-light going straight.
I looked at the back of the quickly-disappearing Neon, and sure enough: Dubya-04.

The “Bucktoothed-Bathtub” is our 2005 Toyota Sienna minivan, by far the best vehicle we have ever owned. It’s white, and therefore looks and feels like a bathtub. The front grill has what appears to be a bucktooth.

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