12.16.2005

Freeway Dating?

At lunch today I went to the bank to deposit a check and jumped back onto CCF right around P street where all the traffic basically becomes a parking lot to go back to work (by Cal Expo). Like any other Friday traffic was pretty terrible and I think I almost got up to 15 miles per hour only once. But apparently during that time I was able to make a friend.

I was driving along minding my own business and now that I think about it I think I was singing along to the Gorillas song Dare. (Well, that's embaressing.) I hear a horn honking but I'm oblivious to these sorts of things. There is a mini van in the right lane next to me and I realize that for whatever reason they are not driving along with the traffic and are in fact pacing my car. I realize that this person has actually been honking at me and I freaked out a little bit wondering if I cut them off at some point and they are hunting me down to exact revenge. But no, he waves. Weird. I wave back. I'm a nice person, after all. I try to pull ahead of him a little but I don't get anywhere since the traffic is moving really slow. He honks again and I look this time to see him gesturing to his (bare) ring finger. (This I take as sign language for 'Are you married') . I shake my head at him and hold my hands up to show no ring. I have no idea why. I can feel at this point that I am blushing really, really bright red. Again, I try to pull forward a bit. I don't get anywhere. He honks again. Now he is making the universal 'phone' sign by holding is hand with a finger to the ear and a finger to the mouth. At this point my blushing is unbearable and I broke a sweat (sexy, huh?). I pulled it off by laughing, shrugging and shaking my head no. He smiles and eventually he pulls away and gets into another lane.

So...logistically, how would this have been possible? I can see getting a number at a stop light. But on the freeway? He also was pretty decent looking, but nothing says Married With Kids like a guy driving a minivan by himself.

Either way...it was a very nice ego boost for a few minutes. Now I'm thinking - oh shit, was I singing again? And could he see all the garbage in my car? Also, my car windows are dirty, maybe he couldn't really see me at all. I also wondered if it was someone I knew playing a joke on me, but while he seemed vaguely familiar the way everyone in Sacramento looks familiar to me I couldn't seem to place him as someone I would have ever met.

Anyhow, thanks minivan guy! Good luck on your quest!

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