Monday, August 10, 2009

Funny Thing on the Road


Funny how thinks happen on the road, and I have about a 30 minute drive time to work every day, each way. Sunday was a very bad day weather wise in the Spring Lake, Grand Haven area. We had winds of 70-80 MPH and many trees and weather damage was all over the area.

Monday rolls around, and I try to get to work and a lot of the roads I take are closed. I end up going north to 96 in Muskegon, after trying 2 different routs through Fruitport. On the road I have a keen sense of what's going on, and today seemed more different than any other day.

On the road, I see a panel truck, like a Volvo or a Frightliner or something...

Out of the back, this thing is blowing a black smoke screen that looks like a car from the 70's with a bad oil burning problem. I'm like take this in for a check up or what? As I drive by the van, the panel on the side is text. Its a Medical transport van from some private firm in Grand Rapids. On the side window, it says this, "Medical Respiratory Transport". I just shake my head and say, what a funny think? oxymoron?

How about this, farther down the road, I'm passing a slower moving truck, and this Mini van with two women are just busting to get past me. I get out of the way, and this Van just zooms past me going 85-90 mph. I took a quick look at them when they are going past, and I see a red cross on the side of the van. (Red Cross Vehicle)

O.K., the women in the van were blond, but the Transportation Van was a guy with dark hair. Is this a blond thing, or a disease,or is it hereditary?

Lets see, is the medical community trying to create customers? I've always heard that people are dying to see the mortician in there town, but this was alarming...(ha!)

So many questions, very few answers....