Notes from Beyond the Pacifeek – Part 2

Part 1 is here .
Here is another set of incidents that occurred during our trip.

Freak’s world(Think not!):
Electricals of different cars behave differently in the US. When the outside light is low, in some cars
the headlights/dashboard console lights come on automatically and in some it doesn’t.
On this particular day i was driving a colleague’s car; when i reversed out of a drive way
and headed onto the main road. I saw a couple crossing the road; and stopped to let them pass through.
While crossing; they just kept staring at me. i was like wtf?! I had a friend besides me who had the same reaction as mine.
Later on, while driving on the main road; we saw on the right a guy was running
at speed on the walkway; yelling something at us and had a torch in hand.
He was it switching it on and off continuously. I looked at him and i was like, looks like a crazy guy.
Man its freak’s world . first the couple and then this guy. Instantly my friend asked me whether i had the headlights on.
i checked and they weren’t on!!!
Apparently, in this car when the outside lights are low, the internal dashboard lights come on but not the headlights.
Well everything made sense and we were/are really thankful to that guy who ran for a block flashing his torch.

So Freaks’ world .. Think not !
Strip club discussions:

The advice i got even i got my visa was that of the sinly type. Ensure you go to a strip club. Don’t go to the one in the Valley.Go to San Francisco. Some even went to the extent to tell me to take a flight which has a layover at Amsterdam and miss the connecting flight so that i can spend a day there. Unless you spent your life under a rock, you shouldn’t ask Why Amsterdam.
On one of the friday nights which coincidentally happened to be Diwali night, 3 of us contemplated the possibility of paying visit to the
local strip club. Let us declare the folks as DA1, DA2 and DA3.

<start of conversation>
DA1: so lets’ go guys!
DA2: what does DA3 say?

DA3: (a bit anxious).. I am not sure man!

DA1: You don’t need to strip buddy, u just watch!
DA2: Yeah man, you don’t do anything.. everything happens.

DA3: No man.. instead i would pay the same money to some needy folks!
DA1: The people working there wouldn’t be unless they were needy!!

DA3: Also its costs around 50 bucks as entrance.
DA2: I am not paying that much man!
DA1: 50 bucks .. r u sure?
DA3: Atleast so i have heard for the strip clubs in San Francisco.
DA1: hmmm….
DA2: No way man! I am cheapo…. i see two movies on a single ticket.
DA3: (with probably a change in mind…) Since we have come here to CA, i don’t mind ! ( in Marathi: ite aloch aahe tar….)
DA2: dude 50 bucks!! no way…
<end of conversation>
What happened ultimately is the million dollar question… I will let it be a million dollar question.
Oh yes, DA means dumbass!

Besides these there have been minor incidents where local experts claimed to have better knowledge of roads than GPS but they didn’t,
we took wrong exits, took wrong freeways (going north instead of south etc) and so on..
Another small incident involved a wine bottle. So i bought this bottle of red wine which got over in less than a week.
One bottle in just a week. My friends with me, were surprised!
My excuse: Well the glass size was big!
Beat that guys …beat that!