Biker Encounter Has a Familiar, Though Perhaps Unexpected, Ring to It
Jody Fox of Laguna Beach was sitting at a bus stop when five well-dressed middle-aged men pulled up to a red light on Harley-Davidson motorcycles. A gang of Hecks Angels, in other words. Fox heard one biker tell the others to quit revving their engines. Why? Someone’s cell phone was ringing. Sure enough, another biker answered his cell. Afterward, Biker No. 2 was asked who had called. “Just the office,” he replied.
Today’s “Duh!” winner: John Goodlad of Corona del Mar spotted a motel that didn’t want any cover-ups (see photo).
Fox in the hen coop? In a job directory, Emilie Pallos of Glendale noticed a university that is surprisingly lax about whom it hires (see above).
Property for a voyeur? Gay Morris of Orange found a house listing that offers an unusual view (see above).
You never know who’s in the next lane these days: Jack Hyatt, an 89-year-old L.A. resident, was driving home the other night when he made a lane change that provoked some honking from the car behind him. He glanced in the rearview mirror and, although it was difficult to see in the dark, he noticed that the honking motorist had pulled over to the curb and seemed to be wildly gesturing for him to stop too.
Hyatt, not wanting to get into a fistfight, or worse, sped away. “The following night,” he said, “my oldest son called me and said, ‘Dad, what was wrong with you last night? You were driving like a maniac!’ ” The driver signaling to Hyatt had been his son.
Unmasking a name: You may recall the photo, from the collection of Marvin Popkin of Laguna Woods, of a sign that said, “I.O. Silver, M.D.”
It brought a note from Susan Cohen, who said that her late father, Israel Oscar Silver, “was a physician for over 50 years in a small Pennsylvania town, Steelton. Believe me, he received plenty of ribbing about his name.”
She added that her father “had a lead foot when he drove and was well known by the local state troopers for his speeding, so ‘Hi Ho’ was appropriate.”
Of course, he had good cause to be in a hurry on occasion. His daughter said he delivered 5,400 babies.
miscelLAny: I never thought of asking the doctor’s daughter the question that Gary Remson posed: “When the doctor was on vacation, did his sign read: ‘I.O. Silver Away’?”
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