Baby’s Got Back

A remotely related topic:

This post was going to be about a totally awesome 1978 Ford Pinto I saw for sale yesterday on Grand Avenue. I returned today to photograph it, but it was gone. On the way there, I overheard the posted conversation.

The Pinto was a wagon with a circular window in the back -- a lot like the one in this image from "Freaks and Geeks."

To tie this all together I noticed that car a couple of weeks ago and was thinking about looking into it as a first car for my teenage boy.

Wasn't the Pinto the one whose gas tank would ignite if the car was rear ended?  Or was that some other pinnacle of 1970s American automotive engineering?

I was (sort of) the recipient of that same kind of conversation when I was in high school!  I was at a party, left the room to go to the bathroom and after I shut the bathroom door, overheard a bunch of my male classmates saying something about how I looked so much better now that I had contacts (HA!) and how I had a spectacular ass.  I wonder if my ass was spectacular when I was wearing thick glasses?  Hmmm...

Wait a minute.  Why did you wear glasses on your ass?

HA!  Well, without the glasses, I couldn't have FOUND my ass...

BAH HA HA!  You win.

I had the privilege of hanging out with older girls in an "advanced" class in high school.  Since I was basically invisible, I learned there is no mouth fouler than that of a teenage girl.  Man, I could tell you stories.

The word "ass" is paltry compared to the conversations I had to hear.

There was a Pinto wagon, circular woondow and all, at the car show on Superior street on Wednsday.  The owners were moving it home early as ther was some doubt as the car actually being able to get home on it's own. I overheard the line "we are going and trying to get her home"

I meant window, crap I hate it when I hit the wrong keys.