History Flashes By
Last night Isaac and I decided to go to Annapolis for our dinner. It's about a twenty-minute drive from Bowie. We took the main highway between here and there. (US RT 50, for those following along on the map.)
It was after dark. Not long after we got underway we saw the flashing lights of a police car speeding along on the opposite side, going back towards DC. Then it turned out to be four–no, five–wait! six speeding police cars with lights flashing. How extraordinary!
A few moments passed and along came another posse of four or five cars, speeding along with lights flashing. Not long after, another quartet of cars with flashing lights, this time accompanied by a hovering helicopter playing a spotlight over the grassy banks along the side of the highway just ahead of the motorcade.
"That's it!" we exclaimed. "It must be that the Annapolis peace-conference thingie is over."
Such was indeed the case. We felt such a part of history.
In: All, Current Events, Raised Eyebrows Dept.
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on Thursday, 29 November 2007 at 09.06
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oooh!
was it deep? didja feel all warm-and-squishy inside? tingly and exciting?
most of all, was it meaningful??