Good Timing
Having an open evening, I knew I'd be seeing a movie tonight. It had been a month between visits to the movie theater because of graduation parties and vacation. I made a stop at Guitar Center after work and then headed to Delano for food and film.
The radar showed a powerful, fast-moving storm approaching from the west, and it reached Delano soon after I was safely indoors. The faint sound of sirens blaring an alert for a severe thunderstorm warning could be heard just before the previews began. The movie volume levels overshadowed any noise from the storm itself. We completely ignored the weather as we watched Brad Pitt fight zombies.
The ground was clearly wet after the movie, but nothing was falling at the time. Yet before I left the parking lot, the siren began to sound again. This time a small cell was moving north. The sky was very dark to the south when lightning wasn't illuminating the clouds. Again, I stayed dry as I drove west.
Did you know the Delano Muller Family Theater is getting new pavement in their parking lot? It's about time. Maybe the new asphalt will have good lines painted. The previous markings: a single yellow line down each row. Since it faded over the years, parking was generally awful. With the current setting as a gravel lot, the parking was unbelievably worse tonight. The lot was quite full, which is good business news for a theater that I generally choose because I can expect a quiet screening of the movie of my choice, but the cars were so misaligned that one area looked triple-parked.
When I reached Howard Lake, I had to pay extra attention because people were crossing Hwy 12 in two places near the municipal bar and liquor store. Yet I was surprised a minute later when a Howard Lake police car passed me near the Sinclair gas station using the center turn without turning on his flashing lights. He passed a few more cars in the same manner near Littfin and even stayed in the left lane as he went up the hill into a No Passing Zone. Finally, he turned on his lights and pulled over an SUV at the right turn lane to County Road 5. This vehicle must have been targeted because a Wright County Sheriff was waiting in the next gravel road.
Speaking of driving stories, I nearly had a collision near Guitar Center. The road has two lanes in each direction. A driver in the right lane was slowing to turn right into a parking lot. A vehicle exiting the parking lot started to pull out even though I was in the left lane. I slammed on my brakes and squealed my tires as he noticed me and stopped himself. Then he sheepishly backed off the road as additional vehicles drove the street behind me.
I'd say I had good timing all night. Otherwise I'd have to come up with a different title for my stories.
The radar showed a powerful, fast-moving storm approaching from the west, and it reached Delano soon after I was safely indoors. The faint sound of sirens blaring an alert for a severe thunderstorm warning could be heard just before the previews began. The movie volume levels overshadowed any noise from the storm itself. We completely ignored the weather as we watched Brad Pitt fight zombies.
The ground was clearly wet after the movie, but nothing was falling at the time. Yet before I left the parking lot, the siren began to sound again. This time a small cell was moving north. The sky was very dark to the south when lightning wasn't illuminating the clouds. Again, I stayed dry as I drove west.
Did you know the Delano Muller Family Theater is getting new pavement in their parking lot? It's about time. Maybe the new asphalt will have good lines painted. The previous markings: a single yellow line down each row. Since it faded over the years, parking was generally awful. With the current setting as a gravel lot, the parking was unbelievably worse tonight. The lot was quite full, which is good business news for a theater that I generally choose because I can expect a quiet screening of the movie of my choice, but the cars were so misaligned that one area looked triple-parked.
When I reached Howard Lake, I had to pay extra attention because people were crossing Hwy 12 in two places near the municipal bar and liquor store. Yet I was surprised a minute later when a Howard Lake police car passed me near the Sinclair gas station using the center turn without turning on his flashing lights. He passed a few more cars in the same manner near Littfin and even stayed in the left lane as he went up the hill into a No Passing Zone. Finally, he turned on his lights and pulled over an SUV at the right turn lane to County Road 5. This vehicle must have been targeted because a Wright County Sheriff was waiting in the next gravel road.
Speaking of driving stories, I nearly had a collision near Guitar Center. The road has two lanes in each direction. A driver in the right lane was slowing to turn right into a parking lot. A vehicle exiting the parking lot started to pull out even though I was in the left lane. I slammed on my brakes and squealed my tires as he noticed me and stopped himself. Then he sheepishly backed off the road as additional vehicles drove the street behind me.
I'd say I had good timing all night. Otherwise I'd have to come up with a different title for my stories.