Words of advice: Don't put on a turban, take off your shirt, grab your Canon camcorder and begin dancing through the middle of a private Muslim wedding party. If you insist on doing so, buy a different brand of camera so that nobody tells police you're "armed with a cannon."
(Incidentally, the guy in this story sold me an air filter a couple of months ago. The air filter is now in my ex-car that is apparently going to be purchased by the grandson of the dealership owner. You really wanted to know all of this extra information, didn't you?)
Lesson: Don't cuss (profusely) about a judge and pee through your cell walls if said judge can hear you. The judge might just increase your bail -- to 10 times the original amount.
The extra tidbit that's not in that news brief: It was a Friday afternoon and the judge was ready to go fishing. He had his canoe strapped to the top of his truck and was going to change clothes in his chambers so he could leave straight from work.
This blogger is now the owner of a brand-new, fully loaded car! It's so new, in fact, that the car won't be here until Monday because it was hard for the salespeople to find one that would suit both my taste and my price. (The pictures in that link are for the 2004 model. They're close enough.)
You know it's going to be an interesting conversation when two guys walk in the newsroom, the front-desk-person is at lunch, and one of the guys says, "You sure can!!" when you ask if you can help them.
The man proceeded to say that he wanted to tell the president or the "big man in town" about the injustice of not being allowed to park his motor home in front of his house. I suggested that he write a letter to the editor, but then the guy -- who had been using finger quotation mark gestures -- switched gears and began asking about classified ads. When I told him he was in the newsroom and pointed down the hall toward classified advertising, he wasn't quite ready to leave yet.
"Ooh, where's the newsroom?" he asked. I explained, again, that he was IN the newsroom.
"Oh, where are all the cameras?" he asked, making motions as if he were holding a camcorder (that would make any viewer nauseous, the way he was swinging his imaginary camera).
I finally got the guys headed down the hallway and laughed about it with co-workers who had mysteriously reappeared. But it wasn't quite over yet. A few minutes later, I was walking down the sidewalk to lunch and, of course, the two guys happened to be coming out a different door. "Hey, it's the beautiful lady!" the guy said, while his friend chimed in with a whistle.
If you're going to steal a police car, get in an accident, do donuts in front of the witnesses, then flee, do NOT use the car's cell phone to make personal calls before you abandon the car. Detectives may just figure that one out.
You know, the Los Angeles Lakers really should have just given up at half-time and taken an earlier flight home from Detroit. But I guess they decided to stick it out and trail by as much as 27 points.
Dave Barry and I were rooting for the Pistons, and you just can't argue with Dave.
Final score: 100-87. Best quote, from an announcer, seconds after the Pistons won and an explosion was heard: "The crazies need to stop blowing up stuff in the building." Best sight: Champagne waiting on ice -- in Gatorade ice chests.
Whether you liked him or not, he was a president who became more well known and did much more than many others. For that, he deserves respect. (In other words, if you post a wimpy reply that bashes him now that he's dead, I will flame you.)
Canon v. cannon
Words of advice: Don't put on a turban, take off your shirt, grab your Canon camcorder and begin dancing through the middle of a private Muslim wedding party. If you insist on doing so, buy a different brand of camera so that nobody tells police you're "armed with a cannon."(Incidentally, the guy in this story sold me an air filter a couple of months ago. The air filter is now in my ex-car that is apparently going to be purchased by the grandson of the dealership owner. You really wanted to know all of this extra information, didn't you?)
Posted by Layla at 9:15 AM, June 30, 2004. Comments (0)