Only in Waterloo...

Ok, so I'm always telling stories to my friends and family and they tell me I need to blog about this stuff. Perhaps I'll try and be a bit better.

ANYWAY....

So my lunch shift got moved around today so I had an hour block. I decided to go to my "usual spot" which is under the bridge in the public parking lot and just listen to some music and enjoy the peace and quiet. I'm sitting there facing traffic thinking about how I haven't had a "People of Walmart" experience and I was pretty bummed out about it WHEN this old school white beat up Ford Taurus comes whipping around the corner. This car has dents all over it and it's rusting. The car starts to slow down because the front driver's side tire is starting to wobble. Now, I perked up a little bit because I was just hoping that this would be like my Waterloo "People of Walmart" type experience. I was like Oh Lordy. I am not going to be able to contain myself if anything happens to this car. Just then--the wheel fell off the car and continued to roll down the street. At this point, I'm dieing of laughter because I mean, how often does stuff like this really happen? I duck down because the car is directly in front of me and I don't really want them to see me hysterically laughing. Anyways, I think they were a little shocked (I mean, wouldn't you be hella shocked too if your tire just totally was rolling down the road without you??) They tried to drive a little bit further, but obviously they couldn't get anywhere. They park their car like diagonally so it's totally blocking traffic. It's a 45 here and so people are almost hitting the car because of the whole situation.

So I'm trying to contain myself because Waterloo never fails to make me laugh and this black couple gets out of the car to check out the situation. Now, I'm not trying to be mean, but it was the icing on the cake when they got out of the car and were in like total 80's garb. I mean we're talking the neon-ish colored sweatsuits with the sideways turned hat that was wayyy too small. This did not help my laughter at all!!! This couple was probably in their late 40's early 50's so the clothes were probably actually from their closet/what they wore in the actual 80's. So they get out of their car and they are just like pacing around the car and looking at each other and then back at their car looking completely flabbergasted.

At this point it was time for me to head to my next school so I didn't get to see what happened to them. I keep looking out my window to see if I can see anything because it was only 2 block from work, but I can't see anything. What a shame. But as I'm sitting here, I keep just bursting out with laughter. I really can't control it. People keep adding comments about the situation that make it impossible for me to get any work done. It's absolutely ridiculous!!

So, in conclusion...only in Waterloo do you see stuff like this. I'm amazed every day at all the crazy shenanigans that go on.

More adventures to come...