Is there a full moon?

[WebmasterAlex]

I'm happily cruising up Route 3, a 4 lane divided highway and I come upon a Ford Windstar, there's nobody else on the road so of course he is in the left lane
I cruise by him on the right and continue to enjoy Bob Marley singing "No woman, No cry" when I notice that he is coming up in my rear view mirror.....
He's bent over the steering wheel like that will help him go faster..I had noticed when I passed there was a woman in the front seat and a couple of kids in the back.
He pulls up on my right and is trying to pass me.. I'm kind of curious so I give it a little more gas and just hang there..
I don't think he has quite figured out that my Audi is way faster and safer than his Windstar....
This fruitcake in a windstar takes it all the way up to a 100 miles per hour!! With his family in the car...the woman appears to be screaming and the kids are not looking very happy.
I decide enough of this, open up the turbo and leave him in the dust...
what a nutcase...

So I decide to go to Lowe's to pick up a few things.
I am out in the garden center... there is some lightening off in the distance and it's just starting to rain. This woman (not an employee) yells "THERE'S LIGHTNING" in the same tone of voice one would use if someone was standing on the tracks and there is a freight train bearing down on them. I calmly say "Yes there is". She starts to really freak and yells "YOU HAVE TO GO INSIDE!!! PEOPLE HAVE BEEN KILLED BY LIGHTNING".
I'm like....ok..... well I will just get my grass seed and then go inside.......
She then ran in like her tail was on fire....

Anyway.... is there a full moon?

 

[debster812]

Alex,

The full moon was a couple of days ago, and I have found in my many years of customer service (external to consumers, and internal to our own associates) that the 3 days following the full moon, are when the FRUITCAKES come out of the woodwork.

Keep them far far away from me. But I can just picture the nutjob in the Windstar, all hunched over the wheel, with the Wicked Witch music from the Wizard of Oz playing in the background. Hee hee hee

Debbie

 

[doxdogy]

From farmer's almanac:

August 11th
Full Sturgeon Moon
11:48 pm

 

[Mamu]

I asked this same question this week at work. I worked every night this week because someone gave everybody the same week off.

The weird phone calls started on Monday, some were classic's. What is so hard about making a appointment to get your hair done.

For some reason phone call after phone call got weirder and weirder. I think between the humidity and the full moon, all the loonies needed haircuts.

 

[Wishydoo]

I don't know. Wasn't Mars mighty close this week?

I say we blame it on Mars.

 

[CRB#33]

Ummm..Alex??

How fast did you say you were going?



Yep. Mars it must be.

 

[browneyes]

Did you see a woman in a white 4X4 pass you today too? Everyone in Georgia was driving about 15 miles below the speed limit. Well, everyone but the woman in a white 4X4.

 

[WebmasterAlex]

I might have been speeding CRB but since they were illegaly driving in the left lane I think all's fair

 

[shep]

You were going 100 and then kicked in the turbo and left him in the dust???
I'd say there were some nuts out...

I had someone pull the same prank on me and when they sped past me I slowed down, needless to say the cops nailed HIM... ...One of the advantages to owning a van...

 

[WebmasterAlex]

well I wasn't about to let him in front of me.... he definitely seemed like the kind of nut that would slam on his brakes or do something really stupid!

 

[shep]

Just going 100 in a van is VERY Stupid...

 

[WebmasterAlex]

exactly my point.. it's no big deal in my audi but a windstar? sheesh

 

[shep]

Better keep that speed down mister....
Need late night moderators to keep us in line...

 

[amid chaos]

Alex..that little lightening turned into quite a storm, huh? Three hours long here.
I love a good storm, especially at night.

 

[WebmasterAlex]

It was an awesome show!! I haven't seen that much lightning in years

 

[Zurg]

LOL Alex.

I like the loonies and the drunks behind me on the road too.

As for 100 well it is all a function of the car & driver IMHO (and maybe the radar detector)