On the drive home

[SteveJ]

Thursday was the monthly meeting for the Georgia Z Club. I use the club meetings as "Drive Your Z to Work" days, weather permitting (and sometimes even if I know the Z might get rained upon).

The weather was pretty good, considering it's January, so I was in the Z car. I received one thumbs up on the drive in. That always feels good. On the drive home, I heard the driver next to me honk his horn. I turned to look, and he also gave a thumbs up. Then a little while down the road he got behind me, flashed his lights, and briefly turned on his right turn signal. I figured that he wanted to talk or get a better look at my car.

I turned into the next shopping center, and he followed. He started off saying that he used to own 7 Z cars. He was active in the local Z scene 20 years ago, but as life changes happened, his Z collection went away. He told me that when he saw mine, he had to get a closer look. We chatted for a while, and I gave him a card for the club.

I told my wife about the incident when I got home. She was surprised that I pulled over. I guess I lead a charmed life that I was confident about the other guy's intentions.

[Captain Obvious]

Last summer I flew 1000 miles to a town I had never visited before to spend a long weekend with a number of Z car people I had never met. Heck... I even jumped blindly into cars with some of them and their wives!  

[SteveJ]

20 minutes ago, Captain Obvious said:

Last summer I flew 1000 miles to a town I had never visited before to spend a long weekend with a number of Z car people I had never met. Heck... I even jumped blindly into cars with some of them and their wives!  

The surprising part is that they let you into their cars.

[SteveJ]

By the way, now that I'm working less I may actually remember to send you the light sockets you've been wanting.

[siteunseen]

52 minutes ago, Captain Obvious said:

Last summer I flew 1000 miles to a town I had never visited before to spend a long weekend with a number of Z car people I had never met. Heck... I even jumped blindly into cars with some of them and their wives!  

And lived to tell about it! 

[siteunseen]

2 hours ago, siteunseen said:

And lived to tell about it! 

He jumped in with me and we did a quick pub crawl. Great time! Our map was on a napkin, IIRC.

[Captain Obvious]

11 hours ago, SteveJ said:

The surprising part is that they let you into their cars.

Haha!! No kidding!! I'm not sure I would!
No hurry on the sockets my friend. I'm off the road until next spring.

8 hours ago, siteunseen said:

He jumped in with me and we did a quick pub crawl. Great time! Our map was on a napkin, IIRC.

And we all lived to tell the stories. Not only was the map on a napkin, but it was scribbled down AFTER the crawl started!
Now THERE'S a recipe for success!