With everything going on to finish this transmitter project, I haven't had much time to do much of anything but work much less to blog. But I had an interesting thing happen to me this past week that wasn't work related. Well just a little, but it really wasn't. You will see.
I had to put my truck in the shop for some work that I should have gotten done months ago, but I kept saying that the project would be over soon and I would have the time to do it right since I needed my ride to get me to and from work, no matter what. Well I just couldn't wait anymore so I borrowed a vehicle from work to use for the day, that turned into 3 days, but that is another story. The vehicle that I got was a news vehicle that has seen better days and will be traded in soon for something else. It is a Ford Windstar that is logoed from hell, just like all station news vehicles.
This van used to be Unit 10 in its hey day, but it is now called the "Batmobile". I have no idea why and it seems no one really knows why it is called that either, but there is a sticker that says "Batmobile" on it where the old number 10 on the back window was. It is pretty beat up with a fairly large dent in the front passenger side bumper with more dents all over and white paint peeling off the body and it only has 135,000 miles. Those news people are very rough on vehicles. Jack rabbit starts and screeching stops and running at 100 miles an hour all of the time.
Anyway, on day two I am driving from the station down to the transmitter and I am stopped at a light when I catch something in my proliferal vision. I turn my head to the left to catch 2 girls in their mid twenties in a Camero waving like crazy at me. I smile and wave back as the light changes to green. I learned a long time ago that when you are traveling in a rolling billboard (even a POS rolling billboard), you NEVER do anything that would piss people off to complain back at headquarters, so if a smile and wave makes them happy, you smile and wave.
In a mile or so another light stops me and again I catch something in my proliferal vision. It is the same 2 girls again waving at me. I again wave back and smile and turn my attention back to the light. Then I hear a horn honk. It is those same girls, still waving and now motioning as they are laughing. HHMM, looks like POSRB (POS rolling billboard) has started a bet with the girls. Can they get POSRB to pull over for who knows what? The light changes and I keep on moving towards the transmitter as the Camero starts to fall behind and then finally turns off down a side road.
Well, I am a married man, it is during working hours, I am in a very well marked vehicle and I need to be somewhere else, like right now and I am a little long in the tooth to be playing games with these girls. I know there is NO way they are interested in me for me, just the person driving the POSRB. Been there, done that YEARS ago in my college days when working part time for a radio station. I have seen the look before.
But it was a nice diversion during a very hectic time.
