A Cello, a Bari Sax, and a Front Bumper
Hello again to another weekend of blogs. Before I begin today's story, I'd like to remind you to check out my shop, donation page, and my YouTube videos, including the one I just uploaded last month. The audio of that song is also on my SoundCloud account. Today's blog is going to be a story about an experience I had at college. In my first semester, I had focused my music degree on playing Cello and then switched to voice as my instrument in the next semester. But I still decided to continue playing in the orchestra in my second semester. That meant that during those two semesters, I needed to make sure that whoever I carpooled with to or from school had enough room in their car for my Cello. (Thankfully this was before I ever decided to bring a suitcase to school as my backpack.)
During that second semester of transporting my Cello between school and home, I would often get rides from a fellow music friend who plays Saxophone. He eventually started learning how to play the Bari Saxophone, which is a bigger saxophone than most. Despite the size though, we could still fit both of our instruments in his car.
One day when we were leaving campus, we were putting our instruments in his car the same way that we always do. My Cello would lay on top of the back seats, and his Bari Sax would fit in the space between the front and back seats. We then sat in the front seats of the car and he started backing up. The car hadn't even moved a few inches before we heard a THUD that came from the front of the car. My friend stopped the car and got out to investigate what had happened. For a while he stood in front of the car looking down at the ground. Once he got out his phone and started calling someone, I started to get curious and got out of the car myself. I looked down where he had been looking and saw that the entire front bumper of his car had fallen off of the car!
After he had a conversation with his dad who unfortunately was still at work, we decided to find a way to put the front bumper inside the car so that he could at least transport it to his home. He decided to put his Bari Sax in the trunk and we slightly readjusted my Cello so we could have the front bumper balanced on top of it. Once we got on the road, we were driving in a car with its front bumper visible in the back seat windows!
My friend was humored by the fact that his car’s front bumper could be seen from the back of the car. He told me that there were probably other drivers who saw the front of his car and would think to themselves, What a loser that guy is. He lost his front bumper. But then they would do a double take as they would see the back of the car. What the…the car’s front bumper is in the back seat! I didn’t notice any drivers on the road doing double takes, but I thought that his scenario was pretty funny.
I actually saw this friend last month and brought up a few memories from school, including this one. He told me that to this day he still has no clue what could have caused his entire front bumper to collapse like that. Maybe it was the cement that he was parked in front of. Or maybe the car was getting old and the bumper couldn’t hold onto the car anymore. I’m just glad that it happened while we were basically still parked. Otherwise, it could have led to a disastrous accident on the road rather than a silly moment in our school’s parking lot.
I hope you enjoyed this little story! What has been the strangest thing that you’ve put in your car? Let me know in the comments down below! Thanks for reading till the end and don’t forget to keep on dreaming!
