Guest Post by Greg: "Pun Intended"

Caitlin and I were driving to Salt Lake City on I-15 a few weeks ago.  Just before we got to our exit, I noticed a Nissan Frontier pickup truck that looked like it had been rear-ended.  The whole tailgate and back side of the truck were dented in.  I turned to Caitlin and said, “It looks like someone decided to press forward against the wild frontier,” as I pointed to the Nissan Frontier.  She looked at it and laughed, not knowing she was about to be the victim of an onslaught of vehicular dry puns.

I decided to go with a western theme to our conversation based on the red Ford sports car that I saw approaching in my rearview mirror.  I said something to the effect of “Ah, the western frontier…Do you know how you can tell you’re in the west?  There’s lots of fresh air and an occasional wild mustang will run past you.”  There was a brief silence while I waited for the red Ford Mustang to pass us.  When Caitlin saw it, she gave me a “that was cheesy” look and laughed.

As we were getting off the exit, I said “You can also tell you’re in the West when you see the sun’s luminous rays shining down on the vast expanses of open land.  It’s a fusion of sky, water, and land that stretches as far as the eye can see.”  Caitlin didn’t catch that we’d just passed a Chevrolet Lumina (luminous rays) and a Ford Fusion (fusion of sky, water and land).  I pointed to the two cars that were stopped at a red light to the side of us.  Caitlin broke up laughing and said that she didn’t know where I came up with the crazy word puns (I call it “wordsmithing”) that I do.

I just said, “You never know what direction I’m going or what my mind is thinking.  It’s almost like you need forensic evidence to decipher what I’m going to say.”  There was a long silence while we waited for the light to turn green.  I made a slight pointing motion out the front windshield.  Caitlin again started to giggle heartily as she realized that stopped at the red light in front of us, was a Suzuki Forenza.