Not Monty Python's Flying Circus, unfortunately. Just a person heavily influenced in most aspects of life by them. After my first post of "the world: a mobile view*" I decided to avoid being so serious, just as soon as I set this thing up.
It's great how often some random people you will never talk to can be the most entertaining part of your day/month/year. Some friends and I, after a delicious dinner of breakfast, were waiting at a stoplight to turn right. Maybe a half mile in the direction we needed to go was a special event going on where people from a church were putting on a "performance" in which the scenes of Jesus's life are portrayed by living statues that, strangely, moved often but in small amounts. Anyway, this event is a citywide known thing, and draws big crowds. The lane closest to us was where they were lining up in their big stupid cars (mostly moms in SUVs), waiting to see this stuff. Here in CA, as I'm sure it is in most, if not all, other states, it is illegal to block an intersection for any reason other than Complete Vehicular Meltdown. And if CVM is the problem, you damn well better start pushin' your crap into the nearest non-road location.
These people felt they were above the law because they were waiting for Jesus. Whatever, they're lame, but that's not the good part. The good part is this: a typical mid-upper class soccer mom in her ugly Suburban is blocking us completely, the car behind her blocking our only possible escape route if we were to make a 19 point turn. A guy in the lane next to her signals to get in front of her to avoid blocking even more traffic. She gets furious and starts screaming out her window at him about blahblahblah and stuff. At one point she actually says "This is not God's way!" All I have to say to that is WAHAHAHA. First, who actually says that thinking it will have an impact on a stranger? Second, if trying to get in front of someone is not God's way, then what does that make 1) blocking people, 2) yelling at strangers for trying not to block people by costing you about five extra seconds, and 3) thinking you have any right to call someone else's actions worse than your own?
Actually, that last one is kinda God's way, seeing as he's the judge. Again, whatever...
I tell you what, that little exchange was hilarious in itself, but add how we reacted and you get a life-changing moment of epic proportions. In the car was me, A, GG, and C. GG opened her window and yelled out (after the festivities subsided to grumbles) "This is not God's way!" and the lady looked over at us as if we were suddenly created out of nothing but a banana and a couple phillips screwdrivers. We were, of course, cackling like... things that cackle? Right. Then C, who was driving, floored it and covered 8 feet in about .0064 seconds. This caused crazy-lady to jump 3 feet, and -- I swear this happened -- hit her head on the roof of her car. Also, the lady in the car behind her saw it and had an expression on her face that I general take to mean "Holy crap, I am getting killed by being repeatedly pooped upon by a rabid baby!" For those of you unfamiliar, that means not just horrible and painful, but reeeeally embarassing.
Of course, her embarassment probably came from her own foolishness in blocking us. I'm ok with that.
* Not the actual title, just a description. If you don't like it you can not like it.
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