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Reminds me of the old Harry Chapin song 30,000 Pounds of Bananas. True story of an eighteen-wheeler losing control of his banana-hauling vehicle as he drive into Scranton, PA.

 

He was picking speed as the city spread its twinkling lights below him.

But he paid no heed as the shivering thoughts of the nights

delights went through him.

His foot nudged the brakes to slow him down.

But the pedal floored easy without a sound.

He said "Christ!"

It was funny how he had named the only man who could save him now.

He was trapped inside a dead-end hellslide,

riding on his fear-hunched back

was every one of those yellow green

I'm telling you thirty thousand pounds of bananas.

Yes, there were thirty thousand pounds of bananas.

 

He barely made the sweeping curve that led into the steepest grade.

And he missed the thankful passing bus at ninety miles an hour.

And he said "God, make it a dream!"

as he rode his last ride down.

And he said "God, make it a dream!"

as he rode his last ride down.

And he sideswiped nineteen neat parked cars,

clipped off thirteen telephone poles,

hit two houses, bruised eight trees,

and Blue-Crossed seven people.

it was then he lost his head,

not to mention an arm or two before he stopped.

And he slid for four hundred yards

along the hill that leads into Scranton, Pennsylvania.

All those thirty thousand pounds of bananas.

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Okay, you busted me.  I've never been there before, but I do watch it on TV.  It makes me feel as if I've been there.

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That HDTV will do that. In a few years the technology will be so good, nobody will ever have to leave their livingrooms. Imagine how much shorter the commute will be for the rest of us!

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