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Drive-By-...what?
Tuesday, June 15, 2004
WARNING: Do not try this at home kids! The result of such actions may lead to unpredictable or unwanted consequences!
So I was driving to work one morning on the 15 freeway south sans my normal carpool buddies Laura and Les. Traffic, being in Southern Cali, was by default sluggish. Still, i will take every opportunity to be legitimately late for work, so the slowness didn’t bother me.
Then this guy zooms buy in his brand new mercedes. Or rather, tries to zoom. He got stuck behind slow traffic, so he wove his way across the slower right lanes of traffic and back, and forth, and back again. Annoyed, I muttered stuff like “idiot” and “gonna get yourself killed doing that” under my breath, when suddenly he was next to my car and pacing me. I ignored him.
He drove a little past my car so i could not ignore him; he looked back at me and gave me the “c’mon! I bet you can’t beat ME!” hand motions (because as you know i am very fluent in sign-language). This guy looked to be an early-30s mildly goofy yuppy with a button down shirt and too much money/time on his hands. Amused i chased for about 2 minutes then went back to cruising in the fast lane. “Forget this!”
A minute later, he was pacing me again. This time, he had a paper held up to the window. I put my car in auto-pilot and let R2 take over for the time being as i strained to read the cryptic writing on the paper. It said:
“ARE YOUR LEGS GREAT TOO?”
I nearly died laughing at him. If only he could have heard the raucous commotion in my car as i smoked him in my comparatively weak 4-cylinder camry.
THE MORAL: having money/nice cars/etc. apparently has no correlation with being smart and doesn’t prevent people from laughing at you. Now you know! And knowing is half the battle!
