I spotted this gorgeous blue car going by as I left Agoura Hills for work.
Seriously — anyone know what it is?
Category Archives: Driving
Just walk it off!
Today, I was at USC to speak as an online journalist at Annenberg’s High School Journalism Day. It was an early thing — 10 a.m. — so I was hurting, having had gone to bed around 2:30 after my 3-11 shift ended. I was waffling about whether or not to go home, catch a cat nap, then go to work, but I ended up picking up lunch in downtown L.A., then doing some shopping in Glendale.
After picking up my food, I took Beverly to Alvarado. I stopped at a street uphill from Temple Street — Court Street — for traffic, and to let a guy cross the street. His eyes actually met mine, and I waved to him to let him know I wasn’t moving till he was clear. Alvarado is under construction, making traffic pretty heavy, so I admit I had my phone out, ready to call Trinity.
As the guy crossed, I was looking down at my phone, and all of a sudden, I heard tires screech. A white compact car hit the guy! My mouth literally dropped open and I rolled down my window. But the guy just got up and waved the driver away and kept walking to the other end of the intersection.
The driver, to his credit, stopped his car and even got out, calling out to the guy, “Are you OK?” And an LAPD squad car happened to roll up, cutting me off, calling out to the driver and asking what happened. They both drove onto Court Street to catch up with the guy.
Dude. How did that guy just get up and walk away? That guy had to be going at least 15 mph, and while that’s slow, that’s still gotta be a painful collision.
Although, I gotta say, the whole situation reminded me of the Super Bowl Pepsi commercial. Check it out after the jump.
The force is with this one
I was killing time in Burbank, not quite getting lost, but definitely not taking the straightest route to Ohana Hawaiian BBQ, when I saw this SUV.
There is so much to notice about this SUV. First, its a hybrid SUV, and the sight of those still jar me. Then I saw the “Got Jedi?” sticker. THEN! I saw the I ♥ HSOLO plate. And! I’m just now noticing the “There aren’t enough scoundrels in my life” license plate frame.
Its a wonder my head didn’t explode.
Little Pink Corvette
While driving to work yesterday, I spotted Angelyne’s pink Corvette in my side mirror and immediately began reaching for my camera. I didn’t catch her going past me — stupid huge truck was blocking me, on purpose, I think — but then again, this is not the first time I’ve spotted her along the way to work.
By the way, did you know when you Google pink Corvette, she’s pretty much the first result? Heheh.
Got stuck in traffic
I didn’t leave late for work, but I ended up being late anyway, thanks to a jackknifed big rig on the westbound side of the 101 Freeway about 2:30 p.m. It wasn’t even on my side of the freeway (I go eastbound to get to work), but of course you have looky-loos, and its the holidays, so of course there’s traffic. I think what made it all the worse was the fact that the sky and the day was gorgeous and all you wanted to do was go! but you couldn’t because of all these cars and the subtraction of three lanes on one of the busiest freeways in Southern California. Sucks.
So, after calling work to let them know what was going on, I decided to start taking pictures. What else can you do? Grind your teeth, keep changing lanes, honk or yell? Right. Only if I needed higher blood pressure. I figured, hey. Its a gorgeous day, its a week from Christmas, and everyone else on this freeway looks so grim and stressed out. I decided I might as well take some pictures, have some fun and maybe some of the drivers stuck in that terrible traffic would see my grin and lighten up.
I think it worked. After snapping one picture, a man, driving with who I presumed to be his wife and his kid in the backseat, drove into my view and tipped his hat to me. I gave him a big grin. It made my day.