1. I was driving around Cambridge today, trying to get through the excited drivers and pedestrians (cause spring finally got here). This is actually more challenging than you would imagine since everyone is driving and people are walking, running, biking and skate boarding like they have no brains cells left from winter. I must be the only person left who knows how to drive, so everyone else needs to get off the street. I whipped around a corner (I mean carefully turned a corner- sorry Mom) onto a small one-way street and saw a huge moving van slowly chugging along in front of me. I immediately became irritated because any large slow van in front of me is irritating no matter what else is going on. And then almost 1 nano-second later had to smile because I saw the picture on the back of the van:
I had to borrow this picture from someone else on the internet, so it's not very good. Imagine it not blurry, on a much larger moving van and, well, the rear end of a big pink hippo. Gotta love that cruising along the small streets of Cambridge. I smiled the whole ten blocks behind the damn thing.
2. Once again, I was driving but this time it was Friday and I was late for a meeting in Lawrence. I was pretty stressed because it takes almost an hour to get from Lynn to Lawrence and I needed to get to the office on time since I was hosting this meeting. And nothing makes me more crazy than being late to my own meeting. I hate being late, but being late to my own meeting just makes me bonkers. I was also stuck behind a slow driver. It was, if you think about it, the perfect storm for Stef's brand of road rage. Just so you know, I usually allow enough time to get to meetings so I don't show up enraged but this particular day it was pretty much out of my control.
I try not to do anything while driving that will get me pulled over or in the hospital, and tailgating is something that I just don't believe in. But I was increasingly considering an exception when I saw that there was a dog in the front seat with the driver (no doggy seat belt in sight!). At first I didn't notice the dog since I didn't want to look into the car at all- I wanted it out of my way. After a couple of minutes of stewing, tho, I noticed the dog was giving the driver a lot of affection, which is nothing but adorable. And the dog's tail was slowly waving back and forth in a kind of lazy, happy dogginess that was very obvious. And I couldn't help but smile. I've taken too many dogs on walks and drives to ignore the contentment radiating out of that damned car. And then I realized that the driver was probably driving slowly so because the dog was in the front seat (this is what dog seat belts are made for, you know). The driver could have gotten out of the fricken fast lane, but the other cars were going even slower, if you can believe it. Seeing the dog so happy made me calm down and just resign myself to my fate. I was only a couple minutes late, and the folks I was meeting with got there just when I did, so it turned out ok.
There's nothing quite so good as the animals to remind me that there are more important things than getting there on time.
btw- Go to Natae's website to see more Maine pictures. Tiffany took them and they're really good. I'd highly recommend checking them out.
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