Odd thing #1 — An SUV with a license plate from Puerto Rico, quickly followed by Thing #2 — a car with a Vermont license plate. Both odd to see in Kentucky and particularly odd in quick succession.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a car with a Puerto Rican plate and I’ve always wondered about the expense of bringing a vehicle with you from an overseas locale. It seems it would be cheaper to sell it there and buy a new one here — but I know virtually nothing about hopscotching living in the US/other countries. This was a new vehicle, too, a Nissan Murano. Perhaps it is insanely cheap to buy cars in Puerto Rico. Also I live in a city with a high number of professional people and two universities, so I guessed maybe the car was owned by a teacher or doctor.
The third weird thing was a large carving knife laying in the road. I had fun speculating how that might have happened on the rest of the way to work … it was in the road in front of a hospital.
Got any answers? Seen anything weird? Hey, it’s Friday — party on.
This morning – and every morning for the past few weeks, at least – I’ve seen a bottle of Gatorade G Series, blue flavored, about 1/3 empty, hanging from a branch of a small tree by a string. I always consider plucking it and enjoying its tasty electrolites, but what if the person who hung it there is saving it for later. Is he waiting for the weather to get really cold so that it tastes better? Is he waiting for it to ripen?
Last night I saw a youngish man wearing a cast on one leg and using crutches. He was trying to negotiate his way down some stairs, which is apparently difficult on crutches. He came up with a clever solution – sit on the handrail and slide down. He wasn’t terribly graceful about it. It made me wonder – how did he break his leg?
Maybe it’s just from the recent nature of its occurrence, but that knife in the road made me think immediately of how it must tie in with the Va-Tech shooting mystery. Probably nothing.
Keep us apprised of the out-of-state plates, please, Ellen Cherry. This could be a trend we all need to be aware of.
Oh, and tdn, I’d avoid that Gatorade. No telling what’s really in there. It made me think of that old gag on squirrel fishing. Remember that one?
This week I’ve seen three extension ladders laying along varied roadsides. Normally I see about three a year, so my inclination is that they’re due to enterprising seasonal contractors trying to capitalize on the demand for residential Christmas lighting.
I saw a car in IA with Hawaii plates. I still have no idea how that happened. Why would you bring your car from HI to IA? If you were staying long enough to need your own car, wouldn’t you change your address? I just can’t come up with a logical explanation for that one.
I’ve seen Texas plates on both a car and motorcycle in the UK. But it didn’t seem odd to me since they were both mine. When you move between states or to a different country you have a bit of time before you’re required to register locally.
The former, please. I can only imagine the choices I’d have to make in zooming in on what you were going for with “recipe.” Just guessing but there must be a few dozen hits on that.
Military, you do not have to change your license or registration from your state of residence when you get moved. I didn’t change my Virginia plates or drivers license from 1990 until 2003, when mrAru actually retired. He had his original California drivers license from before enlistment in 83 until he retired in 2003. Near any military base you can see funky license plates. I suppose you might see them driving around the US as well, live at one base, go to visit family or friends near a different base or since you can get 30 days leave a year, much longer driving vacations are not unknown. I could see going through almost any state on the way to either Disneyland or Disney World by some navy guy from Rosy Roads PR stationed in Newport News RI.
My ex-husband just moved to Hawaii (he’s in the military) and I assume his jeep still has the Wisconsin plates on it. It took over a month for his vehicle to arrive.
I noticed a lot of squirrels on the way to work today. They always seem to want to run across the road in front of my car. They must know I’m going to brake for them, so they take the chance!
Great detective work. Also, it looks like someone went #2 in a urinal at the Pentagon this morning. I think that might be related to the VT shooting and possibly to the Kennedy assassination.
When you move between states or to a different country you have a bit of time before you’re required to register locally.