Picture This: A Preoccupied Motorist Getting Precisely What He Deserves
Fast-lane exhibition: Today’s Stupid Driver Trick is related by a reader named Brian, who was following a Jeep on the San Diego Freeway. “The guy was doing OK until he started to look at some photos he apparently just got back,” Brian said.
“The guy’s thumbing through the photos in an open Jeep, not paying attention to the road. This is in the category of you get what you deserve. He apparently lost his grip on the steering wheel because a bunch of the photos flew out of his hand onto the freeway.”
How’s that again? Some bizarre business practices (see accompanying) uncovered by readers, including:
* An Orange County painter’s concern with vegetables.
* An exterminator’s offer to leave something behind.
* And a pool man’s guarantee to be rough with the customers (submitted by Al Hensperger of Fullerton).
Finally, Miles Sumner of Lomita writes: “As a building contractor I like to know how other contractors do things. It seems that one outfit has discovered a simple way to work. I need big trucks to haul my tools from job to job. Yet these guys do it tool-free!”
TV news bloopers: Recent items here about goofs on local TV news shows brought a note from Linda Anderson of Monrovia, who remembered a story about a broadcaster at KNXT-TV Channel 2 signing off, in very modulated tones:
“KNX Two, Channel T.”
I checked the tape of the station’s 50th anniversary show and, sure enough, that boo-boo is included (the off-camera announcer was not identified).
Maybe that’s why KNXT calls itself KCBS now.
TV news bloopers, Part 2: Some other historical (and hysterical) moments from the Channel 2 anniversary show:
* Former Channel 7 anchor Terry Murphy, standing in the field with a Channel 2 microphone in hand, signing off, “Terry Murphy, Channel 7 . . . Channel 7 . . . Oh no!”
* Anchor Connie Chung going on the air while holding her wrist against her blouse because her wristwatch had become hooked on the microphone. When the camera cuts to mischievous co-anchor Jess Marlow, he is holding his wrist in the same position.
* Weather guy Maclovio Perez, on a live shot in the snow at Big Bear, discussing the coming fashion show of a team of skiers when the skiers suddenly drop their shorts and show their naked backsides.
In the studio, quick-thinking anchor John Schubeck quips: “They should have told us that on March 1, up in the mountains, the moon rises early.”
Piped-in: After the L.A. Police Pipe Band performed at a computer expo at Staples Center, one of the spectators told Pipe Major Steve Megarity that his son back home was crazy about bagpipes. Had just started taking lessons, in fact. Would the pipe major mind playing the lad a tune? Megarity not only didn’t mind he had the entire band strike up a rendition of “Duncan Miller” for the youngster.
Who listened in Michigan as the music poured into dad’s cell phone.
miscelLAny:
My indecision here over the plural of Bigfoot reminded Lloyd Peyton of Silver Lake “of the guy who wrote to an exotic pet store, ‘Please send me two mongooses.’ That didn’t look right, so he started over again, ‘Please send me two mongeese.’
“That still didn’t look right, so he wrote, ‘Please send me a mongoose. P.S. Please send me another one.’ ”
Peyton adds: “Mongooses is correct. So is Bigfoots.”
(By the way, if you think you see any Bigfoots, don’t call me, call Channel T.)