Davis Weekend Weirdness

Left: Six p.m., Friday evening, April 18, 2008. All northbound lanes on the Pole Line Road overcrossing of Interstate 80 were blocked by this three-car accident (the third car is behind me, and thus not visible).

I eavesdropped as the driver of the third car, a young man who may well have been a UCD student, tried to explain to someone else, perhaps his mother, and perhaps the owner of the car, why there was now a big crater on the back bumper. "The car behind me was going too fast. It flew! It flew over the top of the overpass, and it's driver didn't see the car in front of him until it was too late. Tapped me on the back bumper too!"

Saturday was "Picnic Day" in Davis, an occasion for drunken revelry. Lauren M. was disgusted by the tawdriness of it all. Paraphrasing Lauren: "I saw a woman at a bus stop bend over, and oranges came tumbling out of her top. She laughed, picked them up, and stuffed them back in...."

Yes, it looks like this will be a memorable weekend in Davis for many....