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Traveling Companions

It’s interesting going to work at the same time each morning. I share the road with other commuters who travel at the same time. I even recognize some of them. Yesterday morning, I pulled up to a stop light, and was right behind a person I see frequently. I recognize them because of all their bumper stickers. I see them as I leave my neighborhood, so I think they must live near me somewhere.

There are only a couple other cars I might recognize, but it’s kind of fun to have company on my morning commute.

6 Comments

  1. Carol

    Uh…I’d be careful not to cut that one off or anything…doesn’t one of those bumper stickers reference witches? he he I’d not get too cozy, stop for coffee together, etc., unless you tuck your Bible under your arm first. Don’t say you weren’t warned. 😉

    On another note, I have decided to embrace the Morning Idiot – the one driver who behaves the most ridiculously and would otherwise bring out the Road Rager in me. Several mornings ago it was the guy flying up a neighborhood street 60 mph, running a stop sign, etc. Yesterday I thought I had made it all the way to school sans idiots until a car dashed past me on the left coming down Loch Raven from Joppa Rd, then shot in front of me to cross over to the right-turn lane I was going to be in anyway, thereby saving himself approximately 1.5 seconds in his painful journey to whoknowswhere at that hour. I should be videoing these crazies for some sort of documentary someday, but doing that while one drives…I’d be on my own video, wouldn’t I?

    • Brad

      Hehe…
      First of all, I have to confess that I probably drive more like the impatient person in your story than I am like you. I really calmed down as a driver when I was in Maui, but that effect has worn off and I’m back to being in too much of a hurry, even though I know that rushing to pass that one car on the beltway before my exit won’t save me any appreciable time. It’s not that I’m angry. I think it’s more like a game mentality with me or something. …a competition? I’m trying to be a calm driver, really I am. Maybe I should put a note on my dash or something.
      Secondly, I am laughing at your mention of a camera in the car. When I was taking the picture for this post, someone pulled up next to me in the turn lane. I hoped they didn’t notice. I wasn’t doing anything subversive by taking the picture. I even blanked out the license number.

  2. Lauren

    Maybe you guys could get together and form a wiffleball team or a book club – “The 4 a.m. Gang!” Isn’t that when you leave your house?

    • Brad

      I’ve been slipping during these winter months. I’m still getting up early, but I’m slow to get ready or I get stuck on the internet. I usually leave between 5:30 and 6 these days.

  3. Peggy

    I have a traveling companion too. Many mornings I follow Kimmie Meissner’s mom from Harford County all the way down to Towson. I know it’s her because her license plate says “Kimmie’s Mom.” Hey, maybe I should get a license plate that reads “Matt’s Mom”, or “Joe’s Mom”,…..people might think I’m related to a “somebody”!

    (Kimmie Meissner won the figure skating gold medal in the 2006 Olympics. She’s a local hero in Harford County where I live (and her…or is it she).
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimmie_Meissner)

    • Carol

      Your plate would be too long, Pegster: MOMTOMATTANDJOEAND GRANDMOMTO(INSERTKATIEANDJOE’SDOG’SNAMEHERE)

      …and it’s”she”. –closet grammar nerd.

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