Wednesday, May 07, 2003 A mystery. Please help.
While I recently said goodbye to the room in Delaware, the kind landlord, his speddy but sweet kid, and Millie, the best dog in the world, I had to go out there to take care of some business yesterday. Specifically, I had to give the man some money for a car to replace the one I ruined a few weeks ago.
On the way back, I got a little mushy, because, as I've said before, it's a nice drive, full of neat country sights such as ponies. One of my favorite non-pony sights along the drive, though, is by far the abandoned gas station just over the Delaware line on 301.
Besides having the same sad lure that boarded-up, decaying old buildings always do, it had "Keep out Stephen" spray-painted on its boards. The specificity there kept my mind whirring for lots of my total commuting hours.
I got the car, and drove it proudly back to my college's town. This morning, I went down to Virginia to register it, only to find that every DMV in the state is closed on Wednesday. I bitched about it to another nice lady in a station wagon, but to get back here and finish up some final papers.
On the way, right before the Bay Bridge, there was a small traffic slow down, right by the hated Lying Exit of No Gas which has plagued me in my various cars many times over the years. You'd think I'd learn, but each time, I think, "Surely there must be gas. This brand new sign says there was. They can't mean the decrepit old out of business station you can see from the road."
They do. As I slowed further to shake my fist at it, I noticed something. In the same handwriting, but in a different color of paint, was "Keep out Stephen"!
If this is some kind of code for those "in the know" about abandonded gas stations, I want to know about it.
The potential scenarios here are mind-boggling.
posted by Frenz | 5/07/2003 02:10:00 PM
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