Bob was having a bad day.
“Great! Just great! First I drop my phone in the toilet; now I can’t find my Magellan! Where is that dang GPS? I coulda sworn I put it in the glove box a couple of years ago. This aughta be fun, trying to figure out how to get to my sales meeting without directions. Lemme take another look.
Nope, it’s not in here but there’s my jumper cables. Thought I lost them the time my engine died on me the night of the office Christmas party. Hot damn, that was a wild shindig! Who woulda guessed Uptight Tina from R&D could be such a temptress?
Let’s see what we got here … napkins, ketchup packets, pencils, pencils, more pencils, a menu from Panda Pavilion, a roach clip. No GPS. Now hold on just a second. What’s this? Oh man, do my eyes deceive me? A cassette tape! Right on!! Ah, that explains all the pencils! Oh man, from the days when music was good.
Hmm, looks like one of my old homemade jobs. I wonder what’s on it … writing’s all smudged so could be anything. Well, I’m good and lost but at least I’ll have some company on the road. I’m just gonna slip this baby in and see what develops.
🎶🎶 🎸 🎶🎶
Far out!! ‘Free Bird’!!”
NAR © 2023
The Elephant's Trunk 
Terrific, Nancy ❤ (as always)
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Thanks, David! I’m sure at one point my glove box look exactly like this! 😂
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It’s amazing what you find in glove boxes – everything but gloves!
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So true! Perhaps if I had a really cool MG, Fiat 124 Spider or Lamborghini I might keep my driving gloves in the glove box. Of course, I’d have to actually own a pair of driving gloves! 😂
Thanks, Keith. Always a pleasure hearing from you!
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This is good Nancy. Love those references to the past parties. Thanks for joining in.
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Thanks a lot, Sadje, It was a fun write for me!
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You’re most welcome
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Oh man, it’s an archaeological dig!
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Yep! Rocking with The Flintstones! 😂
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Great post! I remember this song from Elizabethtown
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Thanks, Di! This song is a rock anthem and it’s impossible not to think of the original band members who perished in a plane crash. Elizabethtown was an interesting film, I thought.
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It took us a couple of viewings to appreciate it. Susan Saradon’s ‘turn’ was brilliant.
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Nice find locating that tape Nancy.
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Yeah! Bob was stoked!
Thanks, Jim.
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Free bird…😎😎
Revs at mid so the roar of the engine is setting the stage, press play, open windows, hands flying like airplanes…bliss.
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It should be declared a national treasure just on the guitar solo alone! 😎
Epic song! 😎 😎
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We used to record cassettes, too. And burn CDs. Now we don’t have a cassette player or a CD player or a VHS player. Everything is streamed nowadays.
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But we do have memories of the “thhunng” noise upon pressing record and play… and a Bic pen handy ( try asking why we needed a pen with a tape😆)
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Oh yes! To rewind the tape when it goes all loose and the player develops an appetite for poly-plastic.
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Never used a Bic, just the eraser end of pencils.
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Right, Misky! Us too. Now all that stuff is in a box on a shelf in the basement, right next to our slides, 8 tracks and a couple of wineskins! 😂
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“And this bird you cannot change.
Lord knows I can’t change, Lord help me, I can’t…”
Pedal to the metal, th’ day just got better!
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Haha!! A great rock anthem!
Get your lighters out!
Thanks, Liz 😎
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“Bob was having a bad day.” Should I read on? Well, I did. Then came to the word Magellan. Must be some new gadget and googled it and sure enough! Know I’ll never need that.
Did enjoy the song. 🙂
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Thanks, Sighs! A real blast from the past!
How are you feeling these days?
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If I compare myself to myself: 😦
If I compare myself to so many others: 🙂
Thanks for asking.
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I hear you and feel your pain.
I’ll probably never be the same as before my surgery but I’m better than I was before. It’s the only way to look at it. Hang in, Signs. ❤︎
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