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July 24, 2005
On and on
I made the exciting trek from Chicago to Lancaster today. I made it in record time - about six hours - due to the typical lack of Sunday morning traffic. I did so with my bike stuck to the back of the car. I used this rack which seemed to have no definitive way of being fastened to the car, but it stuck like superglue and did a most excellent job, which is to say it didn't cause me to lose my bike.
It reminded me of the Big Wheel Incident. Big Wheels were these cool-ass toys in the 80's that I used to love. They were little bike-like things that you could pedal around and crash into stuff. I would play on it for hours, and now when I look at them I couldn't even fit my head in one of them.
Anyhow, we used to bring the Big Wheels with us to Buffalo when we would visit the grandparents. My dad would tie them to the top of our green Oldsmobile station wagon with bungee cord, load us and Stanley the Dog into the car, and take off. One time, *my* Big Wheen came free from its bungee, and hurdled off the car somewhere between Cleveland and Erie, PA. I was pissed, and we backtracked to look for it, but to no avail. We still talk about that to this day. Luckily my bike avoided a fate for now.
Today, somewhere around Indianapolis, I saw this charter bus with "Alabama Limo" emblazened across the back. It was a nice looking bus - I suppose more of a motor coach - but all I could think of the whole way home was how in Alabama, a "limo" is a tricked out bus. Hence, you get a bus, and call it an Alabama Limo. I am sure that Alabama Limo was merely the company name and not a suggestion about Alabama, but it sure was funny. You know: "Hey Cletus, how'd you get from Huntsville to Birmingham?" "Thanks for asking, Billy Joe. I picked me up one of them Alabama Limos in Bayou la Batre."
If you are from Alabama and would like to send me hate mail, please do so here. And thanks for reading.
Posted by oz115 at July 24, 2005 08:13 PM
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no hatemail oz even though my mom is from alabama...though at least if you're going to mock the 'bama vernacular -- could you at least spell it right?!?
Posted by: Anita at July 26, 2005 11:38 AM