Everybody who spends any time driving at night knows how blinding those freeway construction crew lights can be. Sure it lights up the road brighter than day so they can really see what they're doing, but it also blinds all of the drivers in their quickly moving vehicles mere feet away. Tonight, I heard somebody honking on the expressway overpass that I was in the process of driving under, and then a loud voice came drifting down on the night air: "TURN OFF THE LIGHTS!". I wonder if that's the only sound the driver made as he snapped. I don't know how long this little confrontation continued after I left the area. I'll bet no cops showed up though. They were all too busy pulling me over, supposedly because there was a burgler alarm going off somewhere in the neighborhood. They told me to put my hands on the steering wheel where they could see them, and seconds later told me to turn off the car. Have you ever tried turning off a car when both of your hands are on the steering wheel? Not possible. Then they told me to get out. Have you ever tried to get out of a car when both of your hands are on the steering wheel? Even less possible. Talk about mixed messages. They then asked if they could look in my trunk. After rummaging around a bit, one cop opined that I needed to clean my trunk. Another cop impressed us all with his vocabulary by saying things like "fuck a duck". I refrained from pointing out that ducks are pretty hard to catch, and probably wouldn't at all like that cop's attentions if they somehow failed to escape his sweaty clutches. In short order, I was on my way again, and whoever actually tripped the alarm probably got clean away as the cops were sifting through the detritus in the trunk of my car. One even asked if there was any porn back there, and seemed disappointed when I gave him a disgusted look and told him there was not. Go figure.

cds I listened to while once again looking suspicious: Killer "Shock Waves", Ghost "Hypnotic Underworld", Northwinds "Great God Pan", Savina Yannatou "Dreams of the Mermaid", and Manilla Road "The Circus Maximus"