At a Drive-In With No Car.

OCTOBER 3, 2006
1000 feet above Birmingham on final approach.  Home again, There's no place like home. That's how the saying goes right?

Every so often I see something that could only happen in Birmingham and I feel good to be home.

 

Yesterday I'm at Walgreen's waiting for some one-hour photo be completed. Rather than wait for another 15 minutes I decide to (*As Ms. Barbara would put it*) "put them big size fifteens on the cement" and hobo my way next door to Sonic's

 Have you ever tried to order something to eat at Sonic's without your car? They look at you like you're a weirdo. I may as well been walking up to a McDonald's drive-thru window.  Clearly serving customers with no car isn't covered in the Sonic's employee training video. The lady tells me that they don't have a walk-up window and that I'll have to stand in one of the car stalls and order from there.

So there I am in the middle of the day STANDING IN A CAR STALL WITH NO CAR waiting on my food. I'm at a drive-in with no car. People were looking at me like I was a mental patient. Like I had an imaginary car.

 Meanwhile across the street, a black Mustang made a CRAZY left-hand turn into the Sonic's parking lot and was almost hit by an oncoming truck. As the driver sped into the parking lot she then almost hit a car that was backing out of a parking space.

 Unknown to the Mustang Driver was that there was Birmingham Police Car enjoying a Sonic's meal in one of the car stalls. The police officer sees this and IMMEDIATELY puts down his milkshake.  He swings his car in reverse and circles around the Building.  Meanwhile, Billy McLeft Turn begins to place her order.

While she's placing her order the cop gets behind her and hits his lights.  I'm happy that this happened because suddenly no one was staring at me anymore.

 The lady is in disbelief that the cop is about to give her a ticket for the dangerous left turn.  What made this even funnier is that the cop came to the car WITH THE MILKSHAKE IN HIS HAND !!

Here's the pic… I tried to get close enough to get the shot of his milkshake on top of her car but I was unable to get close enough.
 

 While he's writing her ticket her food arrives. This is when the lady does the most gangsta move in the history of traffic stops, She asks the cop to move so that she could get her food and get this… THE COP MOVED!  And you know what I don't blame her, If you're going to give me a ticket the least you could do is let me enjoy my Tater tots while they're hot.

 The entire time she was sitting there people were looking at her and she would look back at them like "WHAT? YOU AINT NEVER SEEN SOMEBODY SIPPING A PINEAPPLE SLUSHIE WHILE GETTING A TICKET FROM A POLICE OFFICER THAT'S SIPPING A MILKSHAKE"

 No sweetie we've never seen that before.

There's no place like home.

Wood, Jr.