Spilled milk, and music.

[kyrielle]

So glad I do not drive I-84 in the mornings. (It's nowhere near my commute.) Why?

Because this morning, a milk truck overturned and spilled milk across the inbound lanes.

The radio station was having a field day, cracking jokes about bringing in the cats from the nearby humane society to clean it up. I think one of them suggested bringing eggs and/or flour, but I don't remember the exact crack, so my mind has extrapolated from the vague recollection I do have.

Best joke prize, at least while I was listening, goes to a listener who called in, though. He wanted to ask whether the alternate routes they were suggesting were for everyone, or just the lactose intolerant!

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A memory from childhood: listening to the song Cruel War with my Mom. And, of course, each time she asks if she can go with her (except the last) he says no, which rhymes with part of of what she previously said. Finally she says she loves him better than words can e'er express and he says yes.

I turned to my Mom at the end, and demanded (possibly hands on hips - I don't recall, but it has that feeling of mixed disgust and indignation in my memory), if she really wanted to go with him, why didn't she just START by saying something that rhymed with yes?

I don't remember if Mom laughed at me or not, but if she didn't, it must have taken a nearly heroic effort....

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[lunargeography.livejournal.com]

Now if only a giant truck of Cheerios had toppled over...

[mandydax.livejournal.com]

There was a Discovery Channel (IIRC) commercial where these two people were watching people on the sidewald below from the comfort of an office building window. Someone on the street drops an umbrella and the lady in the window says deadpan, "Great, now there'll be cats everywhere." A chain of events happen in a Goldbergian fashion ending with a milk tanker truck landing on its side, expelling milk in the street, and hundreds of cats come to drink.

On a side note, did you know that when large quantities of milk are spilled on a roadway it counts as a BioHazMat spill? It's one of those things I learned as an insurance agent.

I probably would have done the same if I'd heard the song. I had my Spockian moments. :D

[kyrielle]

I didn't know it before the spill, but I did know it after, because the radio station was interviewing the folks involved about the hazmat cleanup, and why it was hazmat, and so on.