Interesting

Interesting Metro Access ride home from Reston the other day. The driver diverted off the toll road onto Rt. 7 in Mclean near Tysons to pick up another passenger. There were three interesting events associated with this side trip:

1) You may not find this interesting at all. It may be that everyone else in the world knows this but me, but I was fascinated. Did you know that they carry new cars to dealerships inside 18 wheeler trucks? I thought new cars were shipped on those open car carrier trucks,
but it seems they actually have big 18 wheelers that have the car carrying ramps and stuff inside the closed van of the truck.

2) We picked up a very nice "little person" from her job at a Tysons mortgage office AND TOOK HER TO HER SECOND JOB, which is caring for an elderly man. She seemed in good health, but she had lots of problems getting around due to her size. It served as a reminder to me that I shouldn't just sit back and accept all this disability crap, but should go out and find things I CAN do. Because there really are things I can do.... (Except run elections.... because, despite having successfully run every election in the City of Falls Church from 1985 to 2008, that is apparently something I'm not capable of doing from a wheelchair. It would embarrass the Electoral Board! (Not that I'm bitter............)

3) The second job for this lady was in a gated community, right there in McLean. Probably there are lots of gated communities in the world, but I've never been in one before. There was a gate with a guard that one had to drive through, and the guard checked off our passenger on his list. The houses and townhouses and condo buildings were all real hoity-toity looking.