A Retarded Prodigy speaks out

My July 4th weekend ...

Work has been so boring ... everyday I wish there is more to do. But then, finally July 4th weekend came up & I was all excited as I was going to see Niagara Falls!! Yipeee yeahhhh ... Actually I had seen the Canadian side like 15yrs ago, but I don't remember it that well. I'm an ADD victim too.

Anyways, as always I whip out my trusty little Sony Ericsson phone and take photos of things I find wierd or funny or sometime normal too.

So following are some of my observations this weekend.

#1: The No-good Truck (TNT) - Hummer
So here I am filling gas just before this big road trip. (Dang, gas is getting costlier nowadays, I shouldn't have bought a V6 sucker) So this lady drives out of the gas station in a H2 with the music blaring and with no regard to on-coming traffic and just barges into the traffic lanes. She made a Corolla almost veer off and hit another car. In my mind I'm like, I wish she learns a lesson somehow somewhere. And after what seemed like eternity, the $$ in the pump stopped counting, I bought a couple of pop cans, picked up already packed up bags from home and I took my gassed-up car down the same road. And VOILA!! what do I see in front of me ... a big traffic jam in the road leading to I-95. By the time I reach the accident site ... what do I see?

The stupid lady crashed into a Cement Mixing truck and her hummer was loaded on top a towing truck!! Check out her number plate ... TNT G&J ... ha ha ha!! Now everyone knows which of the two trucks was the TNT

#2 Uniform mix-up
So my friends and myself are driving north on our way to Niagara. Somewhere in the middle of upstate NY, we stop at a big rest area for our own little golden fountains :) and the usual grub too. As I was waiting near the McDonald's counter, lo & behold I see a kid working there wearing the Ben & Jerry's ice cream uniform.

Now if you're an ice cream fanatic like me, you cannot forget the frooty n bright uniform that Ben & Jerry's has. I wonder what would the McDonald's management do, if they came to know that their own employees were advertising for other companies?!?

#3 Niagara

Wow the falls are big! The view is better from the boat down below which takes you to the foot of the falls. But once your there, there is so much water spraying on you!! there was no way I was going to risk taking out my camera and taking a photo of the better view. So this is the best I could manage before going down onto the boats.

#4 Human assembly line
While waiting on the top to take the elevators for going down, I saw this down below.

What you see is a line of humans entering a tent, on the othe side of the tent when they come out they are all blue in color! DUH!! Yeah they get rain coats in the tent you see. And that's why they are all blue. But the way it looks from up there is so cool!

#5 Backseat company
Now we're on our way back to NJ and my 3 great friends who promised they would give company all the while to the end are ...

... sleeping. Yes, agreed it was kinda peace & quiet in the car when they were sleeping. Once they were up, it was like a bunch of 3 kids that just got some huge shot of sugar/glucose and wanted to let it out every few minutes.
P.S. The new 2005/6 Nissan Altima rocks!! The new headlights look better than the 2004 ones. By the way, didn't do any landscaping with this Altima ... There weren't any rosebushes around :P

#6 Indian groceries ... SUBZI MANDI
Ofcourse we've been to Indian grocery stores in NJ tons of times. But there is this one drink that I used to love back in India and that is LIMCAAAAAAAAAAA ... I am crazy about Limca. I just love that lemony taste it has. I miss those ads too "Limeny Lemony LImcaaaaaa".

If you look you can see the Mango juice in the cart too.

#7 Returning empty plates
Now, when I was growing up, I used to see my Mom & all our neighbors exchange dishes to & fro, not just for a few weeks but for all the years I've lived there!! Whenever someone would bring a dish full of something nice, it was considered mean or taboo to return the vessel/patram/dish/plate (call it whatever!!) empty back to them. Honestly, I don't understand what's wrong with doing that?!? Give it back empty and say the dish or curry was amazing and you liked it a lot. Tell them you will get them something next time you make something nice. Is it necessary to give something right away.

Anyways here are my 2 friends returning their neighbour's plate back, but with most of the awesome laddu's that we bought from SABZI MANDI just an hour earlier :( If only they could have just returned the plate alone :(

#8 Chicken fry

No better way to end the weekend but with spicy spicy chicken fry. YUMM!!

And that was my July 4th weekend.

posted by bobbycalls @ 7:45 PM