..down US-1 this morning. At first I thought I couldn't possibly have seen that right, surely it was just some sort of contraption to help drive the car for someone who might be disabled. But as I slowed back to check again I saw that yes, while driving down the highway a grown woman was in fact playing the fucking recorder, the instrument of choice for 3rd graders, with two hands in a lime green kia.

I regret that in my dumbfounded state I wasn't able to grab a picture before my exit came up. I half contemplated just calling in sick to work and following this car for a while longer.

2/26/2014 10:02:50 AM

cool story bro

2/26/2014 10:11:02 AM

Even as a little kid, I didn't understand why it was called a "recorder". It doesn't "record".

2/26/2014 10:11:05 AM

because if they called it a fipple flute the dumb 4th graders that are forced to play it would all be like

HAHA

2/26/2014 10:13:38 AM

Quote :

"People--especially grade-school children--often wonder why this instrument is called a recorder because the word "record" seems to connote something much more modern and technology-based. According to linguist Eric Partridge in his book "Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English," an early English definition of the word was "to practise a piece of music," hence "record." "

[Edited on February 26, 2014 at 10:15 AM. Reason : a]

2/26/2014 10:14:44 AM

It was about the same time I got one of these, which was a "recorder".

2/26/2014 10:20:38 AM

was it this woman?

2/26/2014 10:31:25 AM

this is actually a great thread

I would've given you $5 in gas to follow her and get pics

2/26/2014 3:22:27 PM

This makes me want to do similarly bizarre things to entertain people.

Except for the whole not safely driving part. I don't want to do that.

2/26/2014 3:23:25 PM