Overheard on the quad, 15 March 2004:
“…It’s not your major, it’s not what job you get, it’s not even who you marry!
“The most important question in life is this: What will you do with the man Jesus, called Christ?”
People were standing around a bald, slowlypacing man (it was raining a little) and I thought, Have a gun ready in case he actually does come back.
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You rarely see storytelling like this on the highway. Usually the drive itself is the story – wheels grinding themselves to oblivion, music lending aura of surreality, lives overlapping for seconds or less.
But wait, there is was on the dotted white line – a piece of rubber, maybe a third of a tire’s worth. A little further, a few more chunks were blown by passing cars, and a little further, two limos stopped under a bridge, drivers out with their sleeves rolled up, changing the left rear tire on the black one. Bang! storytelling.