Wherein Bry talks about hubcaps.

This morning, at the ball-breaking time of 4:30am, I was walking to the streetcar, when what should I spy with my little eye but a hubcap on the sidewalk.

Which made me think of my favorite hubcap story which involves TN (how could it not?).

Yes, I have a favorite hubcap story. Really, I only have two and one of them involves stealing the lugnut cap off the Less Than Jake tour bus (don't ask me why, I don't particularly love Less Than Jake, though I have seen them play on three separate occasions, one of which was in Missoula, MT of all places).

So way back in the day (2000 or 2001), TN comes into the ASLC offices with this hubcap. While he was walking to the office, a car made a wonky turn and the hubcap went rolling off the car. TN brings it upstairs and mounts it on the wall. Eventually, he adds pencils to serve as the "hands" of a clock. It really classed up the joint.

A day or so later, we see a posting on Student News from a girl who lost her hubcap. No way are we telling her we have it, it is now an important part of the decor.

Fast-forward a few days (or weeks), we learn from SJ that she has some meeting for the multi-cultural committee with the head of the Black Student Union, who just so happens to be the owner of the hubcap.

I was sitting at my desk during the meeting, trying to keep a straight face and also kind of worried this girl is going to freak out when she sees her hubcap hanging on the wall.

But she doesn't. Perhaps she is just too enthralled with what SJ is saying (mmmmmm, probably not) or just not observant (I mean, it was probably unrecognizable what with the pencils taped to the front).

We decided that if she can't even notice it is hanging on the wall, then we get to keep it.

TN was always up to something in that office. I kind of miss those days. I'm pretty sure I spent 60% of my time up there.

We used to love getting dinner from Sandwich Express right before Senate on Monday nights. We would call in the order and then make someone go pick it up. For awhile, every time we called, TN would ask, Do you deliver? The answer was always no. Then one day we find out they started delivering. Persistence pays off!

Yeah, the delivering lasted like two weeks until they figured out three jackasses over on the college campus were probably the only yahoos in McMinnville, Oregon wanting delivery.

TN was a senior that year and it really was my favorite year of student government.

After that, the most excitement I had was staying up all night writing papers and then sleeping for an hour on the couch before going to class to turn it in.