It's said that the Pope mobile is like driving in a fishbowl. There he sits with the entire world watching him from every angle conceivable angle. If I were the Pope I would need to go home and have a drink heavily afterwards. While I am no pontif, driving my car does seem to attract a fair bit of attention that I am certainly not used to. Here are today's odd moments:
#1 Took the car to get washed down the street. Feeling like a lazy fool, because I usually wash my cars by hand myself. Since this is new, I thought to try something new right? They used "sheep skin mitts"...lol! Anyway, pull the car up and the guy taking the order asks me, "what is that?? It looks like a BMW...no...it actually looks BETTER than a BMW! How much does it cost??" My response is, a lot less than a BMW. I start to walk away and I look back to see a few more car wash guys come over, peer inside and could hear them comment on the interior. How odd!
#2 We're driving to the aquarium store and in the rearview mirror is a guy driving a black Grand Prix GTP. The 1996-2002s I think. He pulls up on my 5 o'clock and looks over at the back and the doors. Then we are side by side on the and he looks at the rims and the vents on the fender. The light turns green and he pulls away, looking in his mirrors. Oddness.
#3 We pull into the parking lot and some young kids on BMX bikes are hogging the 2nd half of the lot. So I back into a space by the entrace. Walked in the store and I thoughtI forgot to lock the car, so go back to the door and the little band of kids are now hovering around the car. Handle bars. Helmets. New paint. Brats! I lock the door from a distance and watch the kids. They're looking through the windows, looking it up and down...and I just chuckle to myself. Right next to my car is a BMW 5-series and 3-series! WTF?!
The day ended with a random ass trip to the Fair for more kettle corn. SOMEONE (aka Akilah!!) said they didn't "care for" kettle corn, so I didn't get the big bag. But after getting the yummy goodness that is Fair kettle corn, SOMEONE actually loved it! The medium bag I got was half way done 5 hours after it came into the house. So we drive the 30 minutes to Fair Grounds, only to find that there is a 1.5 mile long line just to get off the freeway! After realizing that it would NOT be a quick snatch & grab operation, Kiki aborted the mission as it would take a long time just to get in the gates.
Is Fair kettle corn worth it?
Hellz yea!!
Posted by tony at July 6, 2008 10:13 AM | TrackBack