Our family took a road trip up to Cape Code, MA and then Lincoln, NH. It was a fun time together and we saw some beautiful sights. We also heard or observed some humorous situations. People watching/listening can be so entertaining.
We passed a police officer responding to a driver who had run into a fire hydrant. The driver was moving his arms around while the officer looked at him, hands on his belt. We pulled into the Walgreens around the block for aloe lotion (some of us had underestimated the sun on the partially cloudy day). The store phone rings. “Hello, this is Walgreens. How can I help you?…Do we have a breathalyzer test?…Uh, that would be an alcohol test, right? Let me check with the pharmacy.”
We are standing in line to buy tickets to the Flume Gorge (a beautiful waterfall in NH) behind a couple. The woman is paying for the tickets. The man, camera hung around his neck, puts his hand on the woman’s back and leans into the window to proudly tell the attendant, “We were here on our honeymoon…in ’89.”
Employees at a Mexican restaurant are playing banda music at the bar, occasionally joining in with passionate singing. By the way, watching American football played on the sports screen to banda music is very amusing.
A mom at a service area in New Jersey tells her family, “Ok, we’re not going to touch anything. Ooh, and on our way out, let’s use this door so we don’t have to touch the handle.” Meanwhile, two middle school age kids coming out of the same service area see a pizza box on top of a trash can. They each open it and look inside.
We stop at one of the only Chic-fil-a restaurants we saw in New Hampshire. They have the usual double lines of drive thru and a long line inside. A lady coming in behind us said, “Oh wow, this place looks busy. Should we go across the street?” The woman with her responded, “Oh, don’t worry. We’ll get through the line fast.”
And, I am sure I would have enjoyed many more humorous/insightful comments if I could speak Portuguese, Korean, or Hindi…
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