Ford copycat

I was driving down the road the other day when I passed one of those trucks that carry a bunch of new cars to the dealer. At first glance, I thought I was passing a new shipment of Lexus SUV's. Upon closer inspection, I realized that they were Ford SUV's that had totally jipped the Lexus design.

Ford cars stink. The solution to their lack of sales prowess and cruddy design is to steal other's good ideas.

Pictured above is the new Ford Edge. Below is the Lexus RX.

Copycats.

A real vacation

I am working very hard to arrange for a good vacation for my family this winter. Because our kids are small, we haven't taken a real vacation in a very long time. I'm in the mood to visit Florida and take the kids to Disney World, but I'm having a tough time finding tickets at discounted prices.

If you're an expert shopper and can point me in the direction of some steep Disney discounts, please lend me your expertise. I'm all ears.. (all ears, get it?)

Laughter

The other evening I visited a woman from my church who was in the hospital. This particular hospital happens to have the slowest elevators known to man. It is literally quicker to walk up six flights of steps than it is to take the elevator up or down.

After the visit, I took the elevator down to the first floor. There were two 50-year-old women already inside and one started to accidentally get off on the wrong floor. She realized what she was doing and then it dawned on her that her friend was going to let her make that mistake because she thought it would be funny. I agree, that would have been humorous. Certainly good for a little chuckle. But they didn't chuckle, they erupted, .... and continued to erupt for a very long time.

Both women laughed for the rest of the slow trip down. Once we were off the elevator, they proceeded to laugh as we all walked through the corridors that lead to the hospital exit. I tried my hardest to get away from them, but they kept swaying back and forth through the corridor, giggling loudly, oblivious to the fact that there were other people trying to walk past them. I truly wanted to yell, "ENOUGH!" and snap them back to reality.

I began to feel like I was in a football game and needed to find an open lane through a very effective defensive line. After a few awkward and tense moments, the lane opened and I rushed past them toward the exits.

Touchdown.

Image

Have you ever done a search on your name to see what strange thing you might find? The above picture came up when I Googled "John Stange."

Two year anniversary

This month makes it two full years that I have been posting this blog. Time flies.....

So do round objects at 65 miles per hour.

This morning as I was driving, a manufactured home was being driven on the highway. As is standard with moving structures like that, a separate car drives nearby to warn oncoming traffic of the "oversized load."

Several years ago, I actually saw a manufactured home fall off a truck while making a corner. This morning, I watched as a transport tire came off the side of base of the house and rolled down the highway with the flow of traffic. As the tire began to slow down, it bounced off a cement barrier and then began to "pinball" back and forth between the lanes.

This all happened right in front of me and I kept waiting for the "safety car" to try hitting the tire to stop it from going back and forth. Of course they didn't and eventually, the tire came to a rest on its side in the passing lane, while the house-truck and car casually continued their journey.

So far that is the strangest thing I have seen today. I'm going to try to update regularly this week with something along that theme each day.