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date: "2002-07-26T01:41:46Z"
title: '30,000 Pounds of Bananas (WARNING: Non-Geek News Item)'
---

<p>
Yesterday I drove to Cleveland, OH, then turned right around and came 
back again.  Why, you ask, would I submit myself to 14 hours of driving?
To pick up <a href='http://www.schmoo.org/'>Sue's</a> cat, <a
href='http://www.tynian.net/ickle_fat.jpg'>Ickle</a>.  He didn't have a
home and he was going to go to a shelter unless someone could take care
of him.  <a href='http://www.tynian.net/'>Brian</a> and <a
href='http://www.aphrael.net/'>Karen</a> offered to take care of him,
but they're in the DC area too, and they couldn't make the trip.  I
wouldn't go so far as to say the trip was fun, but it was certainly
interesting.  I'd never been to Ohio, and I've only been to Pennsylvania
once: my <a href='http://home.att.net/~RDUNCAN618/'>dad and stepmom</a>
wanted to visit Scranton, PA, the city in <a
href='http://www.littlejason.com/chapin/'>Harry Chapin's</a> song <a
href='http://www.littlejason.com/chapin/songs/banana.html'>"30,000
Pounds of Bananas"</a>.  I also drove by Pittsburg and through
Cleveland, and I drove on both the Ohio and Pennsylvania turnpikes.
</p>