The other day I was out for a run and saw a HUGE pink limousine. Maybe I just wasn’t getting enough oxygen upstairs at the time, but the first thing that went through my mind was, “Wow. I wonder how much Mary Kay makeup she must have sold?”
So a couple of days later I’m out running in the same area and what do I see parked in downtown Lexington but the actual Oscar Mayer Wienermobile (or at least one of them; I have heard there are more than one). For those who need an explanation, the Wienermobile is basically a giant motorized road-legal hot dog with bun. It has four captain’s chairs in the front seating area (I looked). If I owned a cell phone I would have wished that it had a camera and then I would have wished that I had taken it running so that I could have wished there was a bystander willing to take my picture next to the Wienermobile. I have always thought the Wienermobile is very cool. In fact, it tops my list of favorite mobiles:
1. Wienermobile
2. Popemobile
3. Bookmobile
4. Mobile, Alabama
5. Batmobile
For a while I couldn’t figure out the connection between the giant Mary Kay limo and the Wienermobile being in the same area. Then I got it. If you’ve sold enough makeup to receive a giant pink limousine as compensation, and then you decide to have a cook-out with your friends, the Oscar Meyer corporation snaps to attention and sends the Wienermobile. Case closed.
Unless I really wasn’t getting enough oxygen.
#1 by Wienermobile - March 30th, 2009 at 23:12
Great photo! We’re glad you were able to stop and ketchup with us!
#2 by Mark - March 31st, 2009 at 01:25
Four years of engineering school, seventeen years of solid, steady engineering accomplishment, and yet somehow all the pride derived from such is trumped by receiving a blog reply from the actual Wienermobile. Words escape me.
#3 by carl - March 31st, 2009 at 02:13
I have seen it too. made me sing and want a hot dog