Wednesday, January 18, 2017

Love in the parking lot


Some time ago I was in the parking lot of the Alexandria Wegmans, an East Coast grocery chain, when I noticed this truck all tricked out:


This Wegmans is near Fort Belvoir; I didn’t see a base sticker on it, but it did have an Oklahoma license plate on the rear, and I just kinda thought…

Anyhow, what caught my attention was this declaration plastered to the front bumper:


Look—anyone driving a $32K Silverado pickup with Oklahoma plates and a piece of a Robert Browning sonnet slapped across the bumper deserves a shout-out. I rifled through my car, but didn’t have any decent-sized pads of paper (since rectified). So I scribbled my good wishes on a business card-sized scrap and stuck it under the windscreen wiper.

May you grow old alongside each other, never run out of gas and always be driving under the speed limit as you pass the cop cars.



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