4 State Tour
In the past week I have been to: New York, Massachuttes, Georgia and....Alabama. Yes I said Alabama. We, my 4 team members ( the new team and the normal Friday lunch crowd) were in Columbus to meet with our boss and the team there that are our counterparts. We realized that 3 out of the 5 of us had never been to Alabama and it was just over the river and well when we were telling everyone we were going to head that way just to say that we had been there the response was always the same.....Be careful. Careful? It's Alabama!
So after a really good supper and on the way back to the fabulous hotel we were in, we decided that oh yes we would be daring. We would cross that river and head into Alabama. The token male in the group was driving - our logic was thus - he is married and has teenagers he can handle multiple inputs at the same time and blow us women off with our chattering. We crossed the river, we were in Alabama and it was after dark. It hadn't occurred to me at the time but in the 6 blocks that we drove and turned around I saw one person....One. We took a turn down a side street to turn around and I was just blinking at all the stereotypes. Every single house had some kind of chair on the front lawn or the front porch. There was some sort of thing in everyone's front lawn that didn't belong there - vehicle engines for example. No exceptions to the chair rule but here it was night and no one was out on them. I couldn't tell you if there were crickets or not because well it's the deep south and even at the 9 pm or so it was the temp was still 88 degrees.
Token male does a u-turn in the middle of the street - I mean there's no traffic and no pedestrians! And we make our way back towards the bridge. Did I mention that the male is blonde? So as we are driving and there's the street light and about 50 feet to the bridge we gently ( there was no screaming :) say you should stop - the light was so yellow it was red and we lurch to a halt testing the anti-lock brakes fully. As we stop about 5 feet past the line in the road, we look to the left and there is a police car waiting at the light. Now for fun we tried to convince our driver to run the light and see if we could make it to Georgia and what would happen, but he wouldn't do it. He was sure the police would be deputized in Georgia the second he crossed the state line. We were glad he didn't pull us over just for having NY plates on the rental car, but we were much more careful drivers after that. Ok we were much more alert backseat drivers after that :).
I don't know it might have been fun to hear him explain to the company how we got a ticket in a state we weren't supposed to be in. Had it been me? I am sure I would have gotten a ticket for something, but that is just my luck.
So after a really good supper and on the way back to the fabulous hotel we were in, we decided that oh yes we would be daring. We would cross that river and head into Alabama. The token male in the group was driving - our logic was thus - he is married and has teenagers he can handle multiple inputs at the same time and blow us women off with our chattering. We crossed the river, we were in Alabama and it was after dark. It hadn't occurred to me at the time but in the 6 blocks that we drove and turned around I saw one person....One. We took a turn down a side street to turn around and I was just blinking at all the stereotypes. Every single house had some kind of chair on the front lawn or the front porch. There was some sort of thing in everyone's front lawn that didn't belong there - vehicle engines for example. No exceptions to the chair rule but here it was night and no one was out on them. I couldn't tell you if there were crickets or not because well it's the deep south and even at the 9 pm or so it was the temp was still 88 degrees.
Token male does a u-turn in the middle of the street - I mean there's no traffic and no pedestrians! And we make our way back towards the bridge. Did I mention that the male is blonde? So as we are driving and there's the street light and about 50 feet to the bridge we gently ( there was no screaming :) say you should stop - the light was so yellow it was red and we lurch to a halt testing the anti-lock brakes fully. As we stop about 5 feet past the line in the road, we look to the left and there is a police car waiting at the light. Now for fun we tried to convince our driver to run the light and see if we could make it to Georgia and what would happen, but he wouldn't do it. He was sure the police would be deputized in Georgia the second he crossed the state line. We were glad he didn't pull us over just for having NY plates on the rental car, but we were much more careful drivers after that. Ok we were much more alert backseat drivers after that :).
I don't know it might have been fun to hear him explain to the company how we got a ticket in a state we weren't supposed to be in. Had it been me? I am sure I would have gotten a ticket for something, but that is just my luck.
posted by Jackie at 8:08 AM
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