Power outage, and more.

[valis2]

Yesterday I drove to WI. Today I drove back. Quite tired now.

I was going to check into LJ before I left yesterday, but I lost power at 4 am and it was still off when I left. Boohoo!

Funny things I saw:

• A Taurus stuffed with plants. Seriously. Stuffed. With plants. There was barely enough room for the driver. Looking into the back window was like looking into a jungle.



• A sign for a roadside attraction that has been deteriorating finally broke. It used to read "Fireworks blah blah blah". It now reads:
  
  O R K S
  THIS EXIT
  
  Well, how awesome is that? I never realized it was just that easy. I've been getting them mail order this whole time.



• Argh! I can't remember the third funny thing. I need to write this stuff down. This is going to make me mental.

Quick fabulous thing I just saw:


• THIS AMAZING SNAPE DRAWING by one of my favorite fanartists, the awesome snapesforte.

Not so awesome things that happened:


• I was going around 55 mph (in a huge SUV loaded to the gills) and a PT Cruiser cut in front of me suddenly. They were going 25 mph. It was a construction zone, and the road went from 55 to 25 in a mile, and it was a single lane road just after she cut in front of me with concrete barriers on both sides, and I had nowhere to go. I braked as best as I was able, and honked.
  
  I passed them when the road opened up again. She had four children in the car. Four. All unrestrained. And one of them threw a candy bar wrapper out the window while I was watching. Look, I don't usually like to use the LJ to harangue people, but this made me really, really upset. She, and her children, all would have been very, very seriously injured had I not been able to stop. Even a little tap could have sent them into the barriers. I had seen the sign for the slow down, and had begun to slow down already, and I'm just thankful that I was not traveling any faster than I was. Argh!



• I picked okay on the toll lanes, except for one lane, where the car ahead of me apparently had to have the dictionary read to them. Backwards.

So this weekend is a show, but it's here in my area, but I still have to stay at a hotel, but I'll be checking in periodically, but then I'm leaving Monday. Craziness, huh?

Comments

[sylvadin.livejournal.com]

For me, right up there with parents who don't keep their kids in seat belts, are the pet owners who think it's cute to drive with their dogs leaning out the window. Got news for those idiots - Fido needs to be restrained also. I've seen more than one pooch fall out a window and, at highway speeds, the results aren't pretty.

[valis2.livejournal.com]

Even if the dog doesn't fall out of the window, it is still unrestrained, and in an accident would be forceably thrown through a window. Sad!