The Long Drive Home
Today we drove home from visiting both sets of parents. It is a long, boring, four hour drive.
Fortunately, I will share the boredom.
We saw a poor dead doggie in the right lane. I started singing the old childhood song, "I'm looking over my dead dog Rover, that I overlooked before."
My husband said, "No, it goes I'm looking over my dead dog Rover, that I hit with my power mower."
Perhaps there was an East coast and West coast version of this song.
I saw a handmade sign that said, "Jesus is Lord."
One psycho semi driver almost ran us down. But he used his left turn signal so that's okay.
I saw at least fifty billboards for different housing developments. One advertisement was a bunch of huge cardboard people cutouts. There was a lady playing tennis, a man fishing, a man golfing and a couple walking. I assume the man fishing meant that a lake was also supplied in the development. If so, why was he wearing camping clothes? And why do I care?
There were many billboards for various ambulance chasers. This one was my favorite. It read:
Accidentes?
222-2222
Los Abagados
Abagados are lawyers. (Don't speak English? No problem. We'll teach you how to sue anyway. Welcome to America!)
We saw some abandoned houses and factories. Am I the only one who thinks abandoned buildings look forlorn?
I saw a no-tell motel called the "Shady Nook." Talk about truth in advertising.
That was it for our exciting drive home. (<:
Fortunately, I will share the boredom.
We saw a poor dead doggie in the right lane. I started singing the old childhood song, "I'm looking over my dead dog Rover, that I overlooked before."
My husband said, "No, it goes I'm looking over my dead dog Rover, that I hit with my power mower."
Perhaps there was an East coast and West coast version of this song.
I saw a handmade sign that said, "Jesus is Lord."
One psycho semi driver almost ran us down. But he used his left turn signal so that's okay.
I saw at least fifty billboards for different housing developments. One advertisement was a bunch of huge cardboard people cutouts. There was a lady playing tennis, a man fishing, a man golfing and a couple walking. I assume the man fishing meant that a lake was also supplied in the development. If so, why was he wearing camping clothes? And why do I care?
There were many billboards for various ambulance chasers. This one was my favorite. It read:
Accidentes?
222-2222
Los Abagados
Abagados are lawyers. (Don't speak English? No problem. We'll teach you how to sue anyway. Welcome to America!)
We saw some abandoned houses and factories. Am I the only one who thinks abandoned buildings look forlorn?
I saw a no-tell motel called the "Shady Nook." Talk about truth in advertising.
That was it for our exciting drive home. (<:
posted by Caro at 7:35 PM
5 Comments:
Didn't you play the A B C D, etc., sign game? The person who got Q firstt (Quaker Oil) always won, back in my day.
"Fortunately, I will share the boredom." I love this blog :)
I knew a girl who had a house in the Hamptons, and when she was going to the Hamptons, she played a game called "Hamptons/not Hamptons." She could identify the people going to the Hamptons b/c they were all driving Lexuses.
Of course I did not endorse this game, and thought it was very snotty!
I'm glad to see the trip was pretty uneventful. It's getting so I can understand the Spanish signs also, and I don't speak Spanish!
Thanks for the compliment, Bearette.
Also, regarding the writing class, I live near Sacramento, but thanks for letting me know about the CA locations.
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