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More Quest trip weirdness
May. 21st, 2003 08:50 amAnd how could I forget the weirdness of the road trip--the guy in the green Ford Escort hatchback?!
Short form--during the single ugly stretch of "they're fixing the other half of the highway so everybody is routed over to our side", there was a huge backup that turned out to be the fault of this guy in the aforesaid green hatchback, driving at about 40mph. Luckily he realized what he was doing by driving at that speed (in SD, even in a construction zone, people drive 60) and at the first possible opportunity pulled off the road onto what was basically a "pull off the road so people can pass you" sort of off/on-ramp kind of thing. We passed him again later, after we'd stopped for lunch or gas or whatever and he'd had time to catch up to where we were, and Caoilfhoinn noted (or she may have noted as we passed him in the construction zone, I don't recall exactly) that his bumper sticker said he was a working mother. This was on Thursday.
Fast-forward to Sunday, on the drive home. While somewhere between Mitchell and Sioux Falls, we blew by (Saraidh was driving, not me!) a slow-moving green Ford Escort hatchback with a cigar-smoking guy in it. Noted that the guy was smoking a cigar, were amused, and shortly thereafter pulled off to feed the Windstar. Got back on the highway, resumed extremely high rate of speed. Soon caught up with cigar-smoking guy in hatchback, and because there was someone else also trying to pass him ahead of us in the left lane, and they were going faster than he was but rather a lot slower than we had been, we had to slow down, which gave us the opportunity to read the bumper sticker on the back of the car and realize that this was our working mother guy again! Very weird.
Short form--during the single ugly stretch of "they're fixing the other half of the highway so everybody is routed over to our side", there was a huge backup that turned out to be the fault of this guy in the aforesaid green hatchback, driving at about 40mph. Luckily he realized what he was doing by driving at that speed (in SD, even in a construction zone, people drive 60) and at the first possible opportunity pulled off the road onto what was basically a "pull off the road so people can pass you" sort of off/on-ramp kind of thing. We passed him again later, after we'd stopped for lunch or gas or whatever and he'd had time to catch up to where we were, and Caoilfhoinn noted (or she may have noted as we passed him in the construction zone, I don't recall exactly) that his bumper sticker said he was a working mother. This was on Thursday.
Fast-forward to Sunday, on the drive home. While somewhere between Mitchell and Sioux Falls, we blew by (Saraidh was driving, not me!) a slow-moving green Ford Escort hatchback with a cigar-smoking guy in it. Noted that the guy was smoking a cigar, were amused, and shortly thereafter pulled off to feed the Windstar. Got back on the highway, resumed extremely high rate of speed. Soon caught up with cigar-smoking guy in hatchback, and because there was someone else also trying to pass him ahead of us in the left lane, and they were going faster than he was but rather a lot slower than we had been, we had to slow down, which gave us the opportunity to read the bumper sticker on the back of the car and realize that this was our working mother guy again! Very weird.
