So when you are travelling through windy* and windy* but gas-station-less Columbia River Gorge at a high rate of speed on Monday morning trying to make it to work on time and you suddenly notice that your gas-light-less car is on empty and then 3 minutes later realize that you are sputtering to a halt on Interstate 84, you can put this jacket on and represent yourself as an obviously not crazy one-toothed psycho hitchhiker and make yourself appear as a much more benign skier or PA student in distress, so that this one guy will pick you up and drive very fast to Hood River without functioning seatbelts in his car and then this couple with a rental car with Ohio plates and rental skis will pick you up and take you westward to your car, thus making it possible to still make it to your cold rental house, shower, shave and make it to work with 4 minutes to spare.
*windy as in breezy
*windy as in curvy
Awesome Fall
8 years ago
Ok -I am exhausted from reading this...I can't imagine how you were after experiencing it. Whew!!!
ReplyDeleteYou keep us readers on the edge of suspense...
Did your preceptors notice anything different about you or did they imagine that you had just had an ordinary drive to work? Love to have seen you walking in!!
I smelled a bit like gasoline still. And I later found a patch of facial hair that had gone unshaven in my haste. Besides that, just another monday morning like ususal. Thanks for reading!
ReplyDeleteGood story. I too keep an athletic-cut, top-brand, bright-but-not-too-bright, water-proof-yet-breathable jacket around for emergencies (like grocery shopping or walking from the car to the house in the snow).
ReplyDeleteYeah ~ glad to see you are back in the posting world and glad to see you are safe after hitch-hiking!!!
ReplyDeleteWe need a his and hers version of this jacket you speak of because I have run out of gas in this car twice in the past year as well....mighta come in handy. Good to know.
ReplyDeleteJackets are wonderful and great (and warm...relatively that is) yet maybe it's me, but sounds like the focus should be keeping the gas above a 1/4 tank in a car that apparently enjoys making you put on the jacket. Root causes my people, root causes!
ReplyDeleteGosh- it must be the pre-five-am stupor that produces such wisdom like that (seriously, what are you doing up at that hour!). I will consider your point....however, maybe I was just looking for an excuse to get another jacket.
ReplyDeleteYes, jackets...you know one can never have enough jackets...you need one for cold, one for rain, one for humid days, one for dress, one for hiking, one for walking, one for lunches, one for special occasions, one for cloudy days...I say use your gas money, Audz, and go for it.
ReplyDeleteGet your jacket and get a pedometer to track your post ran-out-of-gas steps. : )
ReplyDeleteApparently the time on this blog is that of you Pacificia's (new word!). The only time me and the pre-five-am hour meet is like last week when my stomach calls me out of a deep sleep for an unpleasant meeting on the porcelain throne.