A day that just popped into my head

For some reason, there was a day that I remember that just popped into my head today.  Felt I needed to share.  I need that happy feeling of pure burning of the bosom dropped down into blogosphere land.  It was the day that I almost ran over my dad's brother.  My dad's brother, well, he has an interesting history.  He's been in and out of mental institutions for years and even went to prison for having a meth lab in his house.  He was a meth lab guy before meth labs were cool.  He also worked in the railroad for a while, and if I recall had his kids living in an abandoned car for a while.  But that is neither here nor there.  At the time I was in college, he was in the Provo mental hospital (though I didn't know it at the time).  I was driving down center street and was about to turn right towards the famous Tommy's Burgers on 200 S. when a man walked directly into the street in front of my car.

Anyway, I screech on the brakes and we both just stared at each other for a moment.  The guy looked eerily familiar, but couldn't place him.  Then I realized that he was my uncle.  I hadn't seen him in probably 10 years or so, and he looked at me with some weird look on his face.  He looked/looks like a serious biker type guy and seeing him in gloriously mormon Provo seemed way out of place.  I remember telling my dad a few years later about the incident and he told me that indeed my uncle was in Provo around that time.  Kind of an odd karma thing.  Weird.

Comments

[stu]

you didn't get to the good part of the story -- Tommy's. Was it good tht day? mmm...i could use a Tommy's burger right now...

If he was in the mental hospital in Provo how could he be walking around the street?

[Plarvo]

Obviously, he was out and about for a while, people can leave mental hospitals. Tommy's was awesome by the way. Double Chili Cheese burgers, yummmmm.