Counting Blue Cars
117 laps to go.
2 commutes a day x 5 days a week x 4 weeks a month x 3 months – 1.5 days of March. The drive from Fountain View to Kirby and back is an endurance race, and I am in it for the gold. Slow-twitch muscles engaged, blinker on.
Passing the street I will live on May 31 of this year, 9 minutes in to my 30-minute commute makes my skin crawl that much more when shuffling through the usual exhaust and flashing marquees.
I refuse to believe elderly go missing.
I imagine the man in that 1996 blue Tahoe really just wanted an escape. He wanted to get in his car and DRIVE without someone bothering him about phones with oversized buttons. Maybe he just took an extra long trip to the grocery store. Maybe he just got stuck in traffic like the rest of us.
So close. Just a few more weeks and a couple more miles to go.
YES. I think about this every time I see those amber alert signs. They are no longer an alert. At all. I probably look at the billboard to the right of them more often than I look at them. How are this many elderly people missing? Are you sure they are missing or are they just hard of hearing and didnt hear the phone when you called so you called the police and said they were missing. Does ANYONE actually look for the cars described in these alerts? Anyone? Do you ever see the ones where two elderly people are missing? News flash. They just arent home. That doesnt count as missing. If Im reading this sign right now Im not home, are you going to call the police and report me missing too?