Monday, April 11, 2011

Close Encounter of the Second Kind

It could have been a close encounter of the third kind.

There I was driving home, minding my own business, and accompanying the songs on the radio in my Freddy Mercury falsetto when a noise akin to the howling wind of a category 5 hurricane rattled the very nice and bolts of my car.

Finding nothing to the right of me and nothing to the left, I looked up - to discover something roughly the size of Starship Enterprise overhead.

It was only then I realized I was passing the Air Force base. The small city overhead was not a starship but a standard issue C-10 transport.

I might not have been so quick to breath a sigh of relief if I had known the armed forces had the testing of laser guns on the agenda  today.

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