Seen while driving...

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Over the last year or so:

• A tricked-out Subaru sedan, with an additional four headlights in the front and a gigantic spoiler on the back, making it look like a monstrous Hot Wheel®.


• A teenager wearing a rainbow clown wig, walking backwards up the hill on Seal Beach Blvd.


• A dirt-bike style motorcycle, heading south down the 405 with a pastel Easter basket, firmly affixed to the back.


• A guy with a large sign on a street corner, pointing to "Self-Storage." The sign is vaguely arrow-shaped, but also reminiscent of the shape of a coffin.


• Another young man with a similar sign, pointing toward a new apartment complex. He is flipping, twirling, and tossing it high in the air, drum-major style, on the island in the middle of the intersection.


• A man riding a bike backwards through a church parking lot.


• A carved Halloween pumpkin, sitting on top of a control box beside the freeway


• The kites of kite surfers, hovering over a row of beach houses like brightly colored fermatas over a bar of music.


• A very bright rainbow that seems to end over my place of employment, while the other end seems to be somewhere in the Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station.


• A license plate that says PLAQLADY. Is the driver a dental hygienist or does she own a trophy shop?


• A woman in a suit, talking on her cell phone, on the island in the middle of Ocean Blvd. This in itself was not so unusual, but when I first saw her I thought she was a little person. When I drove past, I realized she was standing in a knee-deep hole in the dirt. Maybe it was the only place her phone had good reception?


• A couple of blocks later, hordes of matronly women in purple skirt suits with pink blouses. My God, a Mary Kay convention must be in town. Sure enough, I passed the sign for the Sports Arena/Terrace Theater/Convention Center and guess what it says?


• Oxymoron of the Day - a truck getting on the freeway onramp has the words "TRU-GREEN CHEM-LAWN" on the side. If you have to spray a bunch of chemicals on your lawn, is the result truly the color that grass was meant to be? I always seem to see these trucks driving away from golf courses.