This evening was a decent showing, offering up the following tasty sightings:
- 2 girls with emo hair in a minivan, the passenger trailing a cigarette out the open windows, cruising to Britney Spears "baby one more time". Don't you adore all the irony? So clever.
- Crappy 80s sedan with a flashing multicolor neon display on the front bumper. Don't run into anything, boys!
- 4x4 with a loudspeaker broadcasting sound effects of farting and barn animals. I bet the ladies go hottt for this one.
- Someone who missed their turn down towards Hverfisgata and ended up backing up an entire block. Main Street Reykjavík is that unpopulated on a Tuesday that you can just change your mind mid-cruise.
- And finally, someone in a car I didn't recognize who gave me the honk-n-wave. I didn't recognize the driver but counted on a possible second pass to give me another chance to figure out the deal. A few blocks of walking later, the car went by again and this time I waved them down (see previous entry... this is acceptable behavior during the rúntur on Laugavegur. Nobody is in a hurry). The guy was all "hey, weren't you at Dubliners last weekend?". I assured him I hadn't been and he said that I must have an Icelandic twin out there, so identical was this Dubliners attender. He then said, "well, you're pretty all the same. Want to join us?" I'm happy my Icelandic is at a level that I can have bizarre conversations like this but I had to refuse the offer, tempting though it was.
2 comments:
I've also seen at least thrice this older gentleman in a beige suit and a fancy 4x4 at it. He's always going around with the driver side window open, the stereos blaring some evergreens really loud. Once it was Paul Anka, once Elvis, and once some old sounding Icelandic tune which I quite surprisingly didn't recognize. He's quite a character among these young adults in their plastic sedans.
Also, I tip my hat for both of you for the last incident - well played! :-)
dtw: I think I've seen that guy on a pass-through too! The music is often so out of character that I have to laugh. I love it :-)
As for the last incident, I was thinking about it later and maybe there WAS no twin, and it was just a rather crafty pick-up line. This suspicion was echoed by another. Oh well!
Post a Comment