The boss let us go home early today.\u00a0 She likes to do that on Fridays before holiday weekends.<\/p>\n
Berck was still busy at work, so I stopped by the grocery on the way home to pick up mushrooms and peppers.\u00a0 Berck complains that he can’t cook ANYTHING if he doesn’t have mushrooms or peppers handy, so I try to have some in the fridge each weekend.\u00a0 Then I toss them in the garbage in a week when they’ve gone bad.<\/p>\n
Traffic was nuts, even at 2:00 p.m., so I decided to stop at the King Soopers on Uintah.\u00a0 As I was walking up to the front door through the parking lot, I had to swing around the back of a giant, ancient, mustard yellow Oldsmobile Tornado, pulled all the way up to the handicapped sign.\u00a0 (I now know it was an Oldsmobile because I eventually found it on Google.\u00a0 Searching for “tornado” and “cars” on Google leads to a lot of photos of storm devastation, which was not helpful.)\u00a0 \u00a0They just don’t make cars like that anymore, with proud rear ends that announce themselves so loudly.<\/p>\n
What kind of gas mileage does that get, I wondered.\u00a0 I’m sure it was designed before the gas embargo.<\/p>\n
As I walked by, I noticed the windows were down, and the driver was lounging in the front seat, undoubtedly waiting for his passenger to finish their shopping trip inside.<\/p>\n
Then I caught the unmistakable whiff of cigar smoke.<\/p>\n
Because if you’re gonna sit in your Tornado in a handicapped spot at the grocery, of course you’re gonna be smoking a stogie.<\/p>\n
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