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Stranger Than Wal-Mart

"Some 138 million Americans shop at Wal-Mart each week, making it perhaps the single most unifying cultural force in the country."
Chris Anderson, The Long Tail

Saturday, September 10, 2005

Uncanny| Beth McGraw

Yesterday my friend and I had just gotten on the freeway on our way back into Cedar City when we saw a car that had to have been going about 50 MPH in a zone where the speed limit was 75 MPH. I saw that this particular car had those giant wheels that any short person would almost need a little step stool to get into. As we drove past I looked up at the window and saw a lady who looked as though she was at least eighty driving this huge vehicle.

At first sight I was very surprised, I had expected to see some guy who had muscles and tatoos all over his arms. Yet here was this cute lady just puttering along as though she hadn't a care in the world. Why would she have a ar like that? I wondered to myself, why have a car that you have to literally jump and then crawl into?

Yet as we kept driving on I noticed that not one person honked or yelled out their window at her for going so slow. I don't know if the huge tires on the car had anything to do with it or not, but whatever the reason she was able to go along at her own pace undisturbed by the ongoing traffic.

2 Comments:

Blogger brynn said...

I hope I am like that when I grow old! It seems like when elderly people do goofy things- like driving a massive car with oversized wheels- it makes them all the more endearing. What a sassy lady!

3:25 PM, September 11, 2005  
Blogger Christie said...

I truly just want to meet that little lady who had the guts to drive such a massive car as that. She must be a professional at handling such things. Ten bucks says she was a semi-truck driver at one point in time!

4:34 PM, September 12, 2005  

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