Driving Observations #1

Hopefully, this will be the first of a long running series of weird things I see and/or things I’m inspired by when I’m driving.

This inaugural post will be kicked off by something I saw only a couple of weeks ago.

Two weeks ago, Lisa, Andy and I were going down to New York to see Lindsay’s play. I had not driven down to NYC in a long time, and this was the first time I’d be driving in Brooklyn was the first time Brooklyn was my destination. I drove down to New York a lot, back when Dan was on co-op at home on Long Island, and when I dated Lisa the first time. She was a student at Hofstra.

We were about halfway there, driving through Connecticut, talking about God knows what. I was in the left lane, blowing by everyone driving 60mph, and holding up the people behind me who were driving faster than 70mph. I look over to my right, and I saw a tow truck. That’s nothing out of the ordinary. But what caught my eye was that the tow truck was towing a tow truck.

I quickly interrupted Lisa and asked, “Is that a tow truck towing a tow truck?” She confirmed what I saw.

I said aloud, “I have always wanted to see that!” Truthfully, I have thought about that in the past. I thought it would be a funny thing to see, and finally, yes, I saw it.

Andy said something like, “Only you would think of something like that.”

I thought, “Probably…”

~ by southclaw on October 2, 2008.