Rolling Gourds
Well here we are again, writing my blog on the day it's supposed to be up. I think Late Again Films and I were destined to be together.
I had a topic for today but then my wife told me about something that happened to her that I just couldn't resist talking about.
She went grocery shopping the other day and picked up a watermelon: a nice round seedless job about the size of a basketball. We get these all the time at Trader Joe's, they're nice and sweet and juicy.
Now my wife hates things rattling around in the back of the car, and I have to admit it gets really annoying. As she was driving home she could hear this watermelon rolling back and forth and thumping into the sides of the cargo area of the car. "Dbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdb -- THUMP! Dbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdb -- THUMP!" Really annoying, just rolling around with each turn.
So she stops the car right here.
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Around 19th Avenue and Ulloa or so, and opens up the hatchback on our Saturn Vue. 19th Avenue has a slight downhill grade heading southbound mind you.
Try not to anticipate here, it's much more fun that way.
This nice round juicy watermelon rolls out the back of the car and hits the ground running. She barely has any time to react, it just rolls away.
Here is where you can follow along on the map in the window above. If there is no window above, get a better browser.
That watermelon rolls past Larsen Park and Vicente Street, continues past the Stern Grove Recreation Area on your left (on the watermelon's right), crosses the very busy intersection at 19th and Sloat, then continues on towards Stonestown Mall and San Francisco State University, after which point she completely loses sight of it. As it rolls southbound in the northbound lane cars are madly swerving to avoid the gourdy fruit, afraid of I know not what happening were they to roll over it.
I had a topic for today but then my wife told me about something that happened to her that I just couldn't resist talking about.
She went grocery shopping the other day and picked up a watermelon: a nice round seedless job about the size of a basketball. We get these all the time at Trader Joe's, they're nice and sweet and juicy.
Now my wife hates things rattling around in the back of the car, and I have to admit it gets really annoying. As she was driving home she could hear this watermelon rolling back and forth and thumping into the sides of the cargo area of the car. "Dbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdb -- THUMP! Dbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdbdb -- THUMP!" Really annoying, just rolling around with each turn.
So she stops the car right here.
View Larger Map
Around 19th Avenue and Ulloa or so, and opens up the hatchback on our Saturn Vue. 19th Avenue has a slight downhill grade heading southbound mind you.
Try not to anticipate here, it's much more fun that way.
This nice round juicy watermelon rolls out the back of the car and hits the ground running. She barely has any time to react, it just rolls away.
Here is where you can follow along on the map in the window above. If there is no window above, get a better browser.
That watermelon rolls past Larsen Park and Vicente Street, continues past the Stern Grove Recreation Area on your left (on the watermelon's right), crosses the very busy intersection at 19th and Sloat, then continues on towards Stonestown Mall and San Francisco State University, after which point she completely loses sight of it. As it rolls southbound in the northbound lane cars are madly swerving to avoid the gourdy fruit, afraid of I know not what happening were they to roll over it.
So we didn't enjoy a watermelon that night but I did enjoy a laugh. Maybe next week I'll tell you about the time I screwed up James Brown's New Year's Eve concert at the Fairmont Hotel.
Posted on Thursday, September 18, 2008
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I love that San Francisco has "Recreation Groves." Sounds fun!
Much more enjoyable than Los Angeles' "Robbery Tree-Clumps."
Wow---that's hilarious...actually hilarious...