Ha! I was right!

[jlh]

Last Sunday I spent a harrowing five hours driving in a snowstorm from Portland to Cambridge—a trip that should have taken two hours, but traffic had slowed to about 20mph in the snowy dark, and oddly there wasn't much plowing happening on 95/128, much less Route 2. (That hill coming into Cambridge? Absolutely terrifying.)

Anyway, since C and I were in seperate cars, we began listening to NPR in New Hampshire to pass the time and distract us without distracting us. I heard This American Life rebroadcast the Santa Diaries in their full length; the early news about the tsunami on All Things Considered; and that staple of weekend NPR programming, Car Talk. For those of you unfamiliar with Car Talk, it's a call in show about cars that is very funny due to its hosts Tom and Ray, brothers who never take anything all that seriously. Every week, they have a Car Talk Puzzler, sort of a word problem which is often though not always automotive-related. Listening as we were to the puzzler, I immediately came up with an answer and texted it to C, who said, maybe, or maybe it is some other thing.

Well, I am sitting here listening to this week's Car Talk and friends, I was absolutely fucking correct! And it was an automotive-related puzzler! I so rule!

I also need an icon with a car in it.

Comments

[mmichelle.livejournal.com]

Oh, Car Talk is hilarious. I don't really give a shit about cars or anything, but whenever I'm on a long trip, I listen to that show -- it's so funny.

[ali-wildgoose.livejournal.com]

Incidentally, I am never going to catch up on LJ. ;}

And did you ever get that car icon? If not, is there a parTICular car you're looking for? :D