Antique & Classic Cars Blog

It’s Friday and you’re still at your office. Which is strange, given how nice it is. This is a failure of imagination. Looking out the window on a beautiful fall day creates feelings of animosity toward your job, your cube, that guy who talks too loud, the woman wearing a half bottle of Eau du Gagg.

Here’s a few suggestions for ducking the office for some quality time with your classic car or bike:

1) Start coughing, leap up, rummage through something (coat, drawer, purse, briefcase), then dash for the door holding your throat. To anyone who makes eye contact, squawk, “my bronchia.”
2) Pick up your phone, stand up, shout: “What?….when? Oh no!…. I’ll be right there!!” Obviously you have no time to explain. Think something up over the weekend.
3) You left your car running, it has a huge V8, and it’s costing you a fortune. Oh–and you forgot it at home.
4) Gumball Rally is on cable, uncut!
5) You left the door open between the kitchen and bedroom and your airedale keeps setting off your burglar alarm. Each police visit costs a hundred bucks.
6) Your cat has a weak bladder and you accidentally locked him in the garage with your ’54 Vette. Last time he peed on it. (Burn rubber out of the parking lot for this one.)
7) FedEx is delivering your Duntov heads today and if you’re not home, they send ’em back—to 1963. Your mail-order bride is here!
9) Vampires! (If pressed, explain that they can’t tolerate sunlight. Duh.)
10) It’s Friday, it’s sunny and 50, and I have a convertible. (Sometimes the real excuse is the most persuasive. Be sure to offer your boss a ride.)

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