So, it’s a known fact that the Sawyers have messy cars. Many-a-stories have been told about the messiness of our vehicles. Well, I have one to add to the list.
This week, I was borrowing my mom’s car (which she shares with my brother) while mine was getting its A/C fixed. Today was Greg Zumbrook’s wedding, so about an hour before the wedding, my mom calls to coordinate getting her car back today by having me & Clint take two cars to the wedding so Jay can drive Mom’s car back. No problem!
Well, needless to say, Clint & I were running late. While Clint’s following me, we are almost there, and we are sitting at a red light. Clint pulls up next to me and we roll down our windows for him to say “Why didn’t you inform me that I forgot my tie!?” I look in the backseat of my mom’s messy car, and comment “Well, I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a tie back there”.
We get to the wedding, and Jay had just arrived with his ride. Clint gets out and asks them if anyone has an extra tie. Jay goes straight to the trunk of Mom’s car and starts rummaging around. So I go to the backseat and start rummaging around. Lo and behold, I see the tip of a tie peeking out from the depths of the mess! I pull it out, and it’s like the dirtiest CLIP-ON tie I’ve ever seen. Clint puts it on, and you can totally see the metal of the clip peeking out at his neck. Hilarious.
Clint cleaned it up a bit, and with his jacket closed, you couldn’t even see the dirt.
But I was laughing so hard because I was reminded of the typical Sawyerness of the whole thing. First the messy car where you can find anything you need including a tie. It also reminded me of the time when Sean told me a story about when Jay borrowed a suit from Dad. Sean made it a point to tell me how dirty and wrinkled the suit was…
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July 22, 2006 at 11:59 pm
Hahaha yeah, that is totally reminiscent of Adam Sawyer’s wedding in Reading.
We arrive with barely enough time to get in the church and Dad’s strong voice barks out, “Come on Jay, I’ll get your suit!”
Dad opens the back of the surbuban, rummages around and gives Jay a wrinkled, smelly suit that was covered with dirt.
“It looked like it had been used to dig graves!” Sean had said.
Like your contemporary story– we were all cracking up so hard in the parking lot… and unfortunately that carried over– we were prone to snickering during the ceremony just looking at Jay!
July 23, 2006 at 10:40 am
Ahh! That was the story that had come to my mind. I remember now that I had driven myself up to the wedding separate from everyone else. So that’s why Sean had to tell me about the borrowing of the dirty suit.
Speaking of Adam’s wedding, remember when the priest asked all the married couples to hold hands and think about their love. Mom went to grab’s Dad’s hand, and he yelled out “What are you doing!?”
July 23, 2006 at 10:49 am
Hooray for blogs. Mom called this morning and said, “Jay and Carolyn went to that wedding, but I hadn’t heard from them yet.”
And I got to say, “Oh Carolyn posted on her blog…blah blah blah blah blah.”
Mom said she wasn’t surprised there was a tie in that car!
July 24, 2006 at 8:05 pm
oh yeah, speaking of Sawyer cars, and Adam’s wedding, Adam’s friend told a story about one time when Adam borrowed Uncle Mark’s car to drive to an interview? Apparently, at the end of the interview, Adam got into the car, and the guy came up to the door or something, so Adam opened the door, and all these empty beer cans fell out and started rolling down the street.
August 26, 2006 at 4:18 pm
[…] My sister has a very good post on the state of Sawyer cars. In the comments she recounts another one of my favorite Dad stories. I’m going to elaborate a bit: […]