No one should drive around with a personalized license plate that will easily allow the rest of us to profile and make fun of them, but they do and I do. I pulled up behind this one yesterday – ME♥SKE – which I took to mean that this Nissan Leaf driver really hearts to ski. My deductive reasoning was aided by a window sticker that said My Other Car Is On The Bunny Slope and another on the bumper reading Ski Naked.
The Marriage Soundtrack – Episode One
Your married right? My apologies. The following was recorded in every married household in America. It was acquired from the federal government through the Freedom of Information Act. They tape every conversation that takes place anywhere in the continental US (duh!). I remind you of this only so you won’t think I made this up.
The Haunting Of Kite Park
This story, The Haunting Of Kite Park, is the 200th entry since I started this word game in September of last year. These stories allow me to have conversations with friends and complete strangers without having to talk to anyone, which is a testimony to my lack of interpersonal skills. If anyone of these or the next 200 stories resonate on even the smallest cellular level then maybe you could share them with someone else and I could be discovered.
“Excuse me, do you come here often?”
“Yes, ma’am.”
“Can you please tell us what’s at the top of that incline, we don’t want to traipse all that way if it’s a dead end.”
“There’s a picnic shelter and a bathroom and a horseshoe pit and the road then connects to the road that surrounds the lake … but if you don’t mind, people don’t typically go up there.”
“Too tough of a climb, huh?”
“Well, no ma’am, it’s haunted up there.”