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Wednesday I met with a friend for our weekly book discussion. I drove to his house to pick him up and go to a local coffee house to sit and chat.
When I got the where I’d turn on 17 toward his house I was behind a mustang waiting to turn. So I sat patiently, and watched a gap form in the traffic which the driver before me did not take advantage of. And then another, larger, gap.
It was at this point that I realized the brake lights were not lit on the car.
After this I realized no one was in the car at all.
It was just sitting there, in the turning lane, no emergency flashers, nothing. Just blocking the way.
I went around it, drove to the house. After a few minutes’ chitchat with my friend and his wife we drove away. Two guys with a trailer were there with a trailer to get the car. Broken fuel pump, apparently. We helped them push the car up — and easy thing for four people to do.
Just rather… odd.
My friend Wade, when told this story, responded: “That situation was tailor-made for a Mentos commercial.”