SCENE & HEARD
Friday, June 23, 2006
Hey Dorothy, we're not in Hotlanta
2:39 PM
We are in Sonoma, and it is almost as hot as Atlanta, which is very hard to do. You step outside, and automatically, your back gets all wet from the sweat running down. I've only had my back this wet one other time in my life, and it involved sitting back-first in a urinal. Long story.
Strange being here without Rusty Wallace. He was a very underrated road course driver. I'll never forget this race in 2004, when his team ran him out of gas on the final lap. He went from like a sure top-five to a 28th-place finish. Then they ran him out of gas at Bristol, which is very hard to do. And you should have seen the look on his face when I asked him how the heck they had run out of gas on a half-mile track. I think those two races cut 15 years off his career.
See, it's the little things that kill you.
-- Ryan Smithson
Strange being here without Rusty Wallace. He was a very underrated road course driver. I'll never forget this race in 2004, when his team ran him out of gas on the final lap. He went from like a sure top-five to a 28th-place finish. Then they ran him out of gas at Bristol, which is very hard to do. And you should have seen the look on his face when I asked him how the heck they had run out of gas on a half-mile track. I think those two races cut 15 years off his career.
See, it's the little things that kill you.
-- Ryan Smithson
Did UPS make a announcement yet?
You can't leave us hanging! How did you end up sitting in a urinal? Are we talking dare, a slip, or too much Bud?
Fess up, Smithson - inquiring minds want to know. How's my man, Smoke doin'?
just a note, it is just as hot in Southern california, at 10:00.
Ryan, you're going to be the death of me. I always manage to read something of yours that cracks me up right before a call comes through. Then of course I sound all cheerful on the phone. People are going to get the wrong impression and think I care about their travel plans.
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