Adios, Dooshbag.
Here is a photo that has been sitting in my cell phone since my recent trip to the Left Coast. I took it at Newark Airport, where there are a gazillion signs that say things like:
DO NOT LEAVE YOUR VEHICLE UNATTENDED. UNATTENDED VEHICLES WILL TOWED AT OWNER’S EXPENSE.
As if the gazillion signs weren’t enough warning, every few minutes the public address system makes an announcement making clear the consequences of leaving your vehicle unattended.
Obviously the knucklehead driving this car must have thought that the clearly-stated rules didn’t apply to him. I got a particular kick out of watching the driver try to talk the cops out of towing the car away after it had already been placed on the tow truck’s hook.
Here’s the best part. The car was sporting New York license plates.
The Dooshbag driver must have been from Brooklyn.
At LAX, they don’t just have signs and a public address system, they get in your face. Recently, when I dropped my boyfriend off for a flight, I got out of the car to help him with his suitcase (he’s had heart surgery and couldn’t lift it.) I was *not* going to leave the car unattended at all, just get the suitcase out of the car. That takes maybe all of 15 seconds, if that. As we are doing this, a guard comes up and starts shouting at us to “MOVE THE CAR NOW!!!” He was really super threatening. But what was I supposed to do?…the suitcase was already half out of the car. It was only going to take about another two seconds to put it on the curb, hug my boyfriend, and get the hell outta there. He kept yelling, right in our faces. So, I just said, “Sorry dude, you’re going to have to wait!” Gah! I mean, WTF? That seemed a little bit wayyy over the top.
Also, I’ve noticed that if I go to the airport when my car is dirty and I have no makeup on, I *always* get searched! But when my car is washed and I’m all fixed up pretty, they just wave me on through. Talk about profiling!
Comment by DogsDontPurr — May 9, 2008 @ 9:19 pm
It’s always a shock to the Self-Important to discover that they aren’t immune to the same rules, regulations, and other societal constraints that the rest of us live with.
I just wish to hell they’d get caught more often than they seem to.
Comment by DMerriman — May 9, 2008 @ 9:32 pm
One of these days, Hairboy…to the Moon. Brooklyn Dooshbags…ha! As if there even were such a thing.
Dooshbag.
Comment by Erica — May 9, 2008 @ 10:12 pm
Jimbo, I think you and Erica could be long lost brother and sister.
Comment by Gerald — May 9, 2008 @ 11:06 pm
I kind of like the purple hair.
Jimbo
Comment by Jim — May 10, 2008 @ 2:58 am
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Does this mean a trip to the hairdresser is in your future? Possibly to create a brand new “do” for the next blogmeet? *grin*
Comment by Teresa — May 10, 2008 @ 11:45 am
Gerald says-
Jimbo, I think you and Erica could be long lost brother and sister.
No Gerald. More like, Ralph & Alice Cramden.JG
Comment by JihadGene — May 10, 2008 @ 2:13 pm
They have cars in Brooklyn?
Comment by Denny — May 10, 2008 @ 11:10 pm