Well it has been total chaos since before 6 am here this morning! The sea of people is beyond anything someone who hasn't experienced it cannot comprehend.

The thing is, when I was a kid, my family always took us to the trials before the race. And every race day we had a big cook out for the family while we listened to the race in the back yard on a radio.

Yes, listened to race. If you live here, it is blacked out and only available by radio. Oh sure, it's broadcasted the next day but who cares the next day? You already know who won! lol sheesh

I remember as a kid as well, my cousins and I would stay the night with my grandmother who lived 3 houses down from 16th street .. which leads straight down the the front of the track. We would walk down 16th street just to see the people and their excitement. That is until one tragic day when we saw a big cloud of black, grey smoke coming from the vicinity of the track. There was a deadly crash that day and I remember watching how difficult it was for the first responders to get through that crowd. People on the street were wailing and crying and we ran back to my grandmother's house faster than we knew our legs to take us. So sad this memory.

We had office pools of who would win. My mom's 'hearthrob' was AJ Foyt. It was all about AJ for her. And I remember meeting Parnelli Jones at one of the trials my folks took us to. I saw AJ on TV this morning. All I can say is Bless his heart. .. sigh

As a young adult I went to Carb Day with a date and two other friends. We packed our own food which included 2 dozen boiled *E* things that I brought. (ugh, no I didn't eat any!) One of the friends was a guy that drank so much beer and ate so many of these eggs .. omg on the way home all of that fermenting 'badness' came out in the back seat in the form of .. "pfffft! .. pffft" .. and the car became a literal gas chamber! LOL .. mercy!

Well it is what it is. I have very fond memories of this race and really sad and terrifying memories of this race. I just pray everyone is safe today.

And as a last note, you can't imagine the people that end up in jail today and tonight!

For those of you who enjoy it, well heck yes, enjoy it!

I remain stoic and decide 'not' to enjoy it!
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