# Funny things you've seen while driving **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 31, 2001, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-things-youve-seen-while-driving/74392 "2001-07-31T21:18:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2001, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-things-youve-seen-while-driving/74392/21 "2001-08-01T19:44:18Z")
Well, it wasn’t funny in and of itself but the first words out of my mouth made it so. **Valkyrie** is driving me to the Pentagon so I can catch the Metro to work, and as we’re driving alongside the fence for Arlington National Cemetery we see a group of groundsworkers hoisting a very large bag of leaves over the fence into the cemetery. “Ah,” says I, “the budget burial.” ---
**Author:** ![Simetra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Simetra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simetra)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2001, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-things-youve-seen-while-driving/74392/22 "2001-08-01T19:51:49Z")
People see me on the road… and I’m funny… looking. Actually, one of my favorite things to do is ride in my dad’s right hand drive Subaru (a somewhat common car in the US) and sit on the passenger side (which is normally the driver’s side). I hang my hands out the window, drool a lot, and scream bloody murder at anyone we pass. The looks on their faces are priceless. 😃 [sub]I haven’t actually done this in years.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Dragonblink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Dragonblink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragonblink)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2001, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-things-youve-seen-while-driving/74392/23 "2001-08-01T20:15:56Z")
Funniest thing I saw was one of those bus tow trucks (you know, the ones that’re the size of a semi?) towing another truck just like it. “Holy crap,” I exclaimed, “they’re mating!” And here I thought my hometown had the only roller Jesus. Do they franchise, do you think? ---
**Author:** ![x27](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/7993a0/32.png) [@x27](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/x27)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2001, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-things-youve-seen-while-driving/74392/24 "2001-08-01T20:31:31Z")
A guy drove alongside me for so long that I had to look…he had a big mirror positioned in his winsheild to afford an enlarged view of him jacking off. I was swerving and laughing and would’ve looked longer but he sped away. ---
**Author:** ![Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wonko_The_Sane)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2001, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-things-youve-seen-while-driving/74392/25 "2001-08-01T21:33:07Z")
I was driving down a dirt road in North Hero, VT, and there was a mannequin wearing a wig strapped to a mailbox. It was naked. I don’t know why. Mark Serlin’s car. The license plate read “THETROLL” An old guy near seaside heights NJ drives around a Ford Fairmont with a backseat full of papers and trash. Full. To the windows. A dentist near my home set up a scarey halloween scene in his front yard involving an old dentist chair, one of those dentist pedestal thingys, and two dummies. One was the dentist, the other a patient, and both were wearing those “scream” masks. ---
**Author:** ![Daniel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Daniel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daniel)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2001, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-things-youve-seen-while-driving/74392/26 "2001-08-02T00:52:47Z")
The sign guy at the Loews Theater in Town Square Mall in Vestal, NY is trying to get fired. And I’m enjoying every minute of it. The big sign at the entrance to the TSM is really getting out of hand. First, the guy took the lettering for the movie **FINAL FANTASY** and tilted the **I** towards the **F** in such a way that it reads, quite deliberately, **ANAL FANTASY**. One I noticed just tonight is **DR DOOLITTLE 2**. But my personal favorite has got to be the new movie, **PLANET O’ APES** , complete with apostraphe. ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2001, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-things-youve-seen-while-driving/74392/27 "2001-08-02T01:52:48Z")
Lots of odd cars around here - I think Houston may be the art car capital of the world. One of my favorites, seen many years ago, was a late ‘60s Buick Skylark, black, with the windshield replaced with steel with observation slits and a slot for a ~5" diameter x 8’ long “gun” barrel. The rear wheels had been replaced by drive tracks from a tractor and the whole tankish appearance was helped by the apparent rigging of some kind of propane setup that allowed the gun to belch flame every so often. When I saw it the first time, a long ago fave local band (The Footnotes - wonder whatever happened to them) were set up on it (drummer on the trunk and guitar and bass half-sitting in the glassless backglass area) and playing. Other funny stuff? I’ll have to think a bit - there’s been plenty. I was accidentally the driver of the lead car in Houston’s Gay Pride Parade in '81 or '82, with my brother as passenger. We knew _something_ was up, but didn’t figure out what until we managed to pull off of Westheimer Boulevard. ---
**Author:** ![Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wonko_The_Sane)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2001, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-things-youve-seen-while-driving/74392/28 "2001-08-02T03:24:54Z")
A guy in the Trainer, PA area has a camo van, with mock missiles on top. I used to see him occasionally. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-things-youve-seen-while-driving/74392.md?page=1)