To preface this posting, please remember that I am a born and raised Arizonan. Please no judgement!
I was driving to work this morning, radio blasting, belting out Katy Perry's 'Firework'- more than likely providing oodles of entertainment for my fellow commuters with my antics when the police car in front of me turned on it's lights and siren. I gave it no more than a passing thought, just grateful that the lights were not for me as I cannot afford another speeding ticket!
A few miles down the road, there was what seemed to be an immense amount of smoke floating over the road and almost obscuring the shopping center to my right. I thought to myself, "I wonder where the fire is?" I could see no starting point for the smoke, and as I drove it continued to thicken. I contemplated the police car I had seen a few minutes earlier and wondered if perhaps there was a car on fire ahead on the road.
As the air continued to get denser, I started to blink my eyes, reevaluating the cause for the obstruction to my vision. Was I going blind?! My frantic mind started spiraling out of control as the cars in front of me disappeared from view.
Suddenly, somewhere in my swirling brain a memory started to tickle my consciousness. I was 14 years old on a trip to California to visit family and we took a day to visit San Fransisco. We left the Sacramento area early in the morning and I fell asleep in the car. I woke up as we were crossing the Golden Gate Bridge, and rubbed my sleepy eyes. Then I rubbed them again. I shot upright in my seat, now fully awake as I tried to clear my blurry vision. My mom started laughing and explained that it was just fog.
Fog! The realization screamed through my hysterical brain. I was not going to run into a car that was on fire, and I was definitely not going blind. I called my eternally patient boyfriend and made him go look out the window to assure me that it was indeed a weather condition, not my eyesight, and that I would be seeing his beautiful face again. He just chuckled softly and said, "You are too cute, you know that?" I don't know about all that, but if at some point in the next 22 years fog decides to visit the Valley of Sun, hopefully I will immediately recognize it for what it is!
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