Sunday, May 25, 2014

1,000 words

Why I didn't go to my range for Friday Night Steel or the Saturday morning bowling pin match this week:
We just generally avoid that corner of town this weekend.

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15 comments:

Scott J said...

Like I alluded to on book of face: certainly not the place for misanthropes.

12:39 PM, May 25, 2014
The Jack said...

Yeah, when I lived a few blocks North and equidistant between those points this was a great weekend for staying home and off the roads.

1:06 PM, May 25, 2014
Scott J said...

I am a gearhead and love the race though.

I just get too aggravated at all the others who show up to watch.

Actually they don't bother me. It's the ones who show up to drink and act boorish.

1:15 PM, May 25, 2014
T.Stahl said...

Indy 500?
Probably as worse as going to downtown Stuttgart when there's a soccer match. Police in platoon strength everywhere, all dressed up in full riot gear.
I once dropped my wife off at the main station on a Saturday, wondering if there was a terror threat when I realized in was just because of a 1st league soccer match and all those hooligans.

1:17 PM, May 25, 2014
Steve Skubinna said...

I well recall the Tom Slick cartoon in which an Indian tribe of exactly half a thousand members lost their fruit orchards and so sponsored an auto race to raise funds.

They were the Apple-less Indian Five Hundred.

2:18 PM, May 25, 2014
B said...

"Circle City" has corners?

Actually, I remember those days when I lived at 38th and between Lafayette and 465....

Back then, of course, it was not IRL, But CART, and they had 2 weekends of time trials and then the carburation day parties and then the race.....

A zoo even then.

5:39 PM, May 25, 2014
bedlamite said...

My favorite comment from the last time we went there: "Is he selling parking or crack?"

6:38 PM, May 25, 2014
og said...

I do want to see the race one more time. Maybe I'll come down for the 100th. I think it would be cool to have it- even a single lap of it, back in Cedar lake/Crown point/Lowell where it all started.

6:44 PM, May 25, 2014
Old NFO said...

Don't blame you a bit... NOT a bit!

8:23 PM, May 25, 2014
RandyGC said...

I used to love this Sunday when working the Sunday morning sign on shift at the local radio station. I cut the feed in and could sit back and relax except for the ID at the top and half hours.

9:07 PM, May 25, 2014
Anonymous said...

980 words, actually (not counting the contraction).

10:38 PM, May 25, 2014
Anonymous said...

980 words, actually (not counting the contraction).

10:38 PM, May 25, 2014
Spud said...

My wifes father is in the hall of fame there. The late great Ted Horn.
So it is very much a tradition to include the 500 for our Memorial Day weekend.

7:07 AM, May 26, 2014
Hermit said...

Great 500 this year. For the first time in a long while I wish I would've gone down there.

1:32 PM, May 27, 2014
Scout26 said...

Chicken.

But then I left town right after the race started to get back home and beat the traffic. I do need to take my son to the race at least once.

3:24 PM, May 27, 2014

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