If you’ve ever lived in Florida or South Georgia and are familiar with love bugs, this title might well leave you saying…huh? But yes, serendipity is involved because of these love bugs.
For those of you who have never had the pleasure of “love bug season”, they are small black flying insects often in the embrace of passion getting smacked by the millions on the fronts of unsuspecting vehicles in a few southern states. D I S G U S T I N G for the vehicle and unfortunate for the bugs.
Anyway, Mom and I were driving northbound on US19 in Florida in her brand new Dodge Journey with the pretty silver paint job and by the time we reached the northern part of the state her windshield was completely polluted with the guts of the bugs and her grill was nasty to behold as a yucky carnage carrier. Once we left Florida, no more bugs m’lady. Needless to say, one of the first orders of business was to find a car wash…as Mom put it, one with people not one that would just bake the bugs on further.
We were directed to a car wash in downtown Montgomery and don’t you know the employees were happy to see this challenge of a job?! They assured us they would get the bugs off. As fascinating as carwashes are, I left my mother at the car wash and took a walk downtown. Roger…you’ll love this! Across the street from the carwash was some hotel…snazzy, real snazzy. I’m not sure of the name but it had RSA in it….maybe the Radisson or Renaissance, I don’t know and I’m sure to catch h e double hockey sticks from my buddy Roger “nose for details” Mucci. That’s okay, I’m a big girl and can take the flack!
I should have taken a photo of the bugs but that might have been unfit for pleasurable viewing and anyway I’ll probably get the chance on the return drive to St Pete this weekend.
Considering that a high rise in Sylva, NC is about three stories…downtown Montgomery, Alabama was pretty darned interesting! I’m a big believer in serendipity and although I hate that so many bugs had to give their lives for me to take my photos…I have to say thank you to the love bugs.
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