06/05/2026
I’ve been told several times that I should write a book, have a sitcom, or have a reality show based on my life bc there are people and situations in my life that are too ridiculous to make up. Stories from my life were a staple in my radio shows but, since I’m not in radio anymore, Facebook has been the place to chronicle my stories. Now, I guess I’ll finally have to start a blog but in the meantime I’ll be sharing my stories here.
For today’s episode of, “The Ridiculous Life of Angie Thomas“ I present to you: Yesterday’s Trip to Syracuse.
Anyone else ever been just completely mystified by the crazy s**t that drivers do? Now I’m not talking about the stuff we see here in the North Country, like people driving their cars through buildings or over the top instances of road rage (which I have seen firsthand and do not always involve my mother. That said, instances involving my mother would involve a whole nother batch of stories); I’m talking about just crazy, weird s**t that makes you look at the other drivers and go, “What are you doing?!?”
Now let me preface this by saying I have been to some cities that are much larger than Syracuse. I have been to Rochester, Washington DC, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, and New York City to name a few and I have never seen drivers do any of the stuff we saw today.
Probably the least bizarre but still incredibly stupid thing I saw today was a black car drive from Syracuse almost all the way to Watertown, past sunset, with no lights on. This person was either blissfully ignorant to the fact that their lights were off or they were trying to get an insurance claim. Either way I got to dodge that guy on 81 repeatedly on our trip home.
I also had to deal with an idiot in a black truck that felt it necessary to fly by me going at least 90 miles an hour, when I was going 70 som**hing, because apparently he was in a really big hurry to get to the Mexico exit that was only about 30 seconds in front of us.
While we were in Syracuse we saw: a van pull out of a gas station onto the highway with his rear passenger side door wide open but we lost sight of him before we could figure out if he ever noticed it and actually pulled over to fix it, a guy driving around in a newer model four-door Ford Bronco that felt the need to remove his front doors (so he could feel like he was driving a jeep apparently), and a guy (with a rather unremarkable looking truck body otherwise) that had mounted the body on a monster truck frame complete with monster truck wheels. This dude was not dressed like Evel Knievel nor did he do anything to the body of the truck to try and make it look like a monster truck, he was just casually driving around the highways of Syracuse in this ridiculous looking monstrosity.
Now, even though it’s not driving related, this was the first thing we encountered when we got to Syracuse it’s still kind of nuts… We stopped in at a gas station to use the bathroom (granted in a shady part of the city but there are lots of shady places in Syracuse so whatever) and the first thing we notice is that the entire front counter area is encased in, what looked like, glass but it was hard to know if it was bulletproof or just thick glass.
From there we head to the most jacked up bathroom that I’ve been in since The Hoot Owl. All of the dispensers were missing their exterior parts, the toilet seat was held on by sheer will, and the room doubled as a ghetto looking, half assed storage room. This room was so rough I thought Pennywise was going to emerge from the sink.
As we left the bathroom and passed by the register area, we noticed some interesting products that were available. Products included (but were not definitely not limited to): m**h pipes, fake urine, CO2 cartridges (for those that like to do Whippits), Kratom, and (Kratom’s chemically derived cousin) 7-Hydroxymitragynine.
Hopefully I’m wrong but I feel like we’re going to see that place on the news at some point related to a shooting. Maybe it’ll just be for a DEA raid but either way I have a strange feeling that som**hing major definitely going to go down at that place.
Next trip to Syracuse is scheduled for August 6th. God only knows what we’ll see this time but if it’s as ridiculous as what we saw yesterday I’ll be sure to let you know 👍
