by Mike Fuori on Wednesday, August 17, 2011 at 2:50pm ·
#18: The Meteor Shower
This has nothing to do with NASCAR except that we were at the racetrack when we saw the most incredible meteor shower we’ve all ever seen. One of the guys, Justin, mentioned to us before we went to sleep that there was going to be a major meteor shower at something like 3am. Some of us decided to get up and see if we could see any (after all, 3am is right about the time we all somehow either end up needing to go to the bathroom or waking up from being freezing cold every night), and all of a sudden, we started seeing a meteor every 5-10 seconds or less. Some of them were close enough that they were huge and you could see the tails behind them. None of us expected it to be that cool.
So we all stood there looking up at the sky at 3 in the morning, pointing every time we saw one and when there was a good one, you’d hear us all say “woah! Did you see that?” Then after a while we thought… we must look pretty stupid standing here with our heads up staring at the sky and pointing and saying “woah” like we were doing our best Keanu Reeves impression. I can’t imagine what it looked like to the people in the infield who had been drinking beer for the last 12-24 hours, or at least the ones who hadn’t passed out yet.
This has nothing to do with NASCAR except that we were at the racetrack when we saw the most incredible meteor shower we’ve all ever seen. One of the guys, Justin, mentioned to us before we went to sleep that there was going to be a major meteor shower at something like 3am. Some of us decided to get up and see if we could see any (after all, 3am is right about the time we all somehow either end up needing to go to the bathroom or waking up from being freezing cold every night), and all of a sudden, we started seeing a meteor every 5-10 seconds or less. Some of them were close enough that they were huge and you could see the tails behind them. None of us expected it to be that cool.
So we all stood there looking up at the sky at 3 in the morning, pointing every time we saw one and when there was a good one, you’d hear us all say “woah! Did you see that?” Then after a while we thought… we must look pretty stupid standing here with our heads up staring at the sky and pointing and saying “woah” like we were doing our best Keanu Reeves impression. I can’t imagine what it looked like to the people in the infield who had been drinking beer for the last 12-24 hours, or at least the ones who hadn’t passed out yet.
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