The Maniac On The Road This Morning

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to another episode. I tell you what, hello everyone, what.
I'm just taking my leisure little drive down the highway
this morning, driving down my little street there, pull off
on the four ninety four, zipping down. Everything's just fine
and dandy. And then this car's acting weird next to me.
Was coming right up like you're gonna pass me, and

(00:22):
then pacing me like from behind my left back quarter panel,
hanging there for a minute, and then pulls up next
and starts making all these wild hand gestures to me.
And I'm going, the hell, it's four o'clock in the morning. Yeah,
well what did I do? And just crazy business with
the hands and everything else. And I'm going, okay, I
guess this is the day. You know, like, were you ready?

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Were you ready to throw down?

Speaker 1 (00:47):
If you had Well, I was in a big truck.
I mean I could. Yeah, I was getting ready to
put them. You know. It's like, okay, there's a all
of those concrete barrier things to the left, you know
what I mean, right next to the shoulder. Yeah. So
I'm thinking, all right, on a little little touch with
this bad boy and that little that little piss ant
vehicle is going to go for a ride. And the
look car and it's Dubs. I'm usually half hour in

(01:11):
front of Dubs. Yeah, but I I I went to
the last alarm this morning. My dog was not sleeping
well last night, so which means he was. He gets
in bed with us, and I forgot to take his
collar off. Allows him to take his collar off because
he shakes. Yeah, but he shakes jingles. That wakes me
up all the time and all night long. I'm like, oh, yeah,
she tad collar off and I first started following sleep again.

(01:36):
So yeah, So I come rolling in here about the
same time Dubs, and I mean, I thought we're gonna
get after it there for a minute, and then it's like, hey, okay,
it's my guy. G's I almost just lady to waste
my friend. Well, I saw you. I was like, I
think that's this truck.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
And then I was like, yeah, that's him, and I
go or this is gonna be really awkward.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
I was moving along fairly, so he had to do
a little catching up to get me. Yeah. He oh,
I know he was trying. I mean, and I could
hear his vehicle like, I mean just really you know,
expending itself of all of its juices and then I
look over and I'm like, Okay, thank god I didn't. I
didn't do what I was thinking of doing.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
What were you thinking of doing?

Speaker 1 (02:14):
I was really thinking of sending him into the other
oncoming lane, popping them, popping him over the guard rail.
And I'm just like, who's this idiot at four in
the morning, Because you do run across every now and
then you get somebody you don't want any I'm the
only one on the road. Well this time, you know,
there's a few more cars on the road, but when
I come in generally before that even there's nobody out there. Really, dude, Well,

(02:37):
I mean when I say nobody, it's very very light.
You don't see enough people to be driving side by
side next to anybody. You know, you pass a semi
here and there. I remember COVID. It was just weird. Oh,
just the road, especially for people took it real serious
at the beginning. And I mean it was a lockdown,
and you know we had the pass to drive, and

(02:59):
well remember that I still have it because yeah, wed
so I'm driving. You know, i'd be driving in then.
I remember a few mornings, literally a few mornings, probably
a handful nobody I didn't see anybody. I didn't pass anybody.
It sounds unreal, it was true, but seventeen eighteen minute
ride to work or so, yeah, nobody. Wow. I remember

(03:21):
thinking can I make it to work without seeing any
I mean, I didn't see anybody.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
It's interesting because coming in on Highway fifty five, I
feel like I see a decent amount of cars on
the way because.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
Well, the country people if I would have drove that way,
I still see people during COVID.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
Yeah, because they think, right, come on, well you see
you have a lot of blue collar workers, a lot
of people that are in essential what are deemed essential jobs,
things like construction, stuff like that. I think, And so
the roads are decently busy coming in that way.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
But I'll never forget that just ghost town. And it
was probably three times it was, it was less than
it was like a handful or less times where I
drove in and nobody on the highway because I was
making a point to look even like it in parking lots,
turning around something like nothing. It was early on that
was really really locked down. Ye. People were just I
mean they weren't really afraid of anything. They just weren't

(04:09):
Nobody was going anywhere Wells and driving home from worker.
I mean I would there were people on the roads
at you know, eleven in the morning at that time,
but just still like nothing.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
Yeah. I remember those first couple of weeks in March
that year when everything really shut down. I mean everybody,
it's just nobody knew what was going on. It was
totally new, and so a lot of people were just
hunkered down.

Speaker 1 (04:30):
I'll never forget going to Fleet Farm and seeing the guy,
a great, big tall guy, and I was with my
neighbor and everyone's wearing masks and this great, big tall
guy put the pool noodles first one I saw on
his head for six foot separation, except it was I
don't know there's six feet or four feet, but their
pool noodles, I don't know how long pool noodles are.

(04:50):
And he had a great big crown, and it was
just he was doing it to be a smart ass,
and some people were giving him crap, and I'm just like, dude,
that's good. He didn't want his picture taken. I wanted to,
you know, because I was going to be respectful, and
I didn't even want to take it from the back,
you know. But it's just like, I guess I don't
know if the you know, I could listen and respectful

(05:12):
and probably just should have just gone for it. But
it was just funny. But I come to find I
think a lot of people did that, but I just
he was the biggest guy in the store, really tall.
It just looked like an antenna.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
I never saw that. No, I never saw anybody do that.

Speaker 1 (05:27):
Yeah, he did pool. He had a crown of pool noodles.

Speaker 2 (05:31):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (05:33):
And my neighbor, who's another smart ass, We're looking at
each other like where were we on this one. It's like, well,
we don't have any pool noodles. It's like, yeah, well
maybe he went out and got so maybe he bought
them right there at Fleet. The zip tized.

Speaker 2 (05:44):
Yeah, it was great. It's nice to look back on
that time and be able to laugh at the funny part.

Speaker 1 (05:50):
Yeah, because I had two kids in uh in school
right in the prime of their high school you know,
heading into high school years, and it was just terrible.

Speaker 2 (06:00):
Yeah. My brother, I'm trying to think of the the
exact timeline, I guess doesn't totally matter, but my brother,
one of them missed out on senior prom because of it,
missed out on the whole beginning of the college experience
because of it.

Speaker 1 (06:14):
I'm a little shocked. You're right, County didn't just go
for it, pedal down with everything.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
I think the private schools did.

Speaker 1 (06:19):
Yeah, I said, we're good.

Speaker 2 (06:21):
Yeah, the public schools kind of have to go with
whatever the state declares. So but I'm pretty sure a
lot of the private schools kept truck. I know the
churches did. Like our church, they'd have they Well it's
funny because our church had like the cameras so that
you could log on and do the online experience them off.
They would shut them off, like yeah, they would shut

(06:44):
them off for some parts, and then they just I
think the pews that you could see on the camera
were usually empty, but I know it was full.

Speaker 1 (06:51):
The peers moved them way to the back and then
filmed them vacant. They put them in the storage. Here's
our service today. We got the audio. But there's that. Yeah,
there's nobody here.

Speaker 2 (07:01):
Design and suspiciously, the cameras would turn off during communion.

Speaker 1 (07:07):
Big pack crowd difficulties like this eating hand in mouth,
those Catholics sticking the tongues out, dropping the cheese. It
down there. Yeah, Jesus the most.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
The most that they did I think is uh for
that during that time they didn't offer wine, but everything
else during communion was fine.

Speaker 1 (07:31):
Why why not?

Speaker 2 (07:33):
Well, because like they didn't do the little Dixie cups,
they're like drinking out of the same thing.

Speaker 1 (07:37):
Well, I no do the little Dixie cups.

Speaker 2 (07:38):
They didn't.

Speaker 1 (07:39):
I don't think I don't drink out. It's the blood
of Christ. I know it's gonna wipe all that stuff out. Well,
I'm I'm convinced to that it is what you want
it to be. You know what I mean, you believe
you know, it's if you believe, that's what that's what
it is. True. I don't want to go back to
those times, but you know if we did, Yeah, they
give me a little sippy pool. What's going on?

Speaker 2 (08:00):
It's all fine.

Speaker 1 (08:01):
Heck, yeah, it's all over now. Thank God. Hopefully I
never go back to that right again. I appreciate you
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