You gonna put scaffolding on that?

Outdoor scaffolding comes in big sections... the sides are 5x5', and that's not something you can easily move around. Even though the rental place is only about two miles away, last year I drove to a friend's house in New Hope to borrow his dad's pickup, to get the scaffolding. A 22 mile round trip to get scaffolding 2 miles.

When it was time to return it, we decided to try out the roof rack on the Integra. It's only two miles, right? Turns out, with the bike racks, it actually works quite well. The only thing is, the guys at the rental place found this very amusing, to the point where they actually remembered us from last year. The guy behind the counter, though, didn't get to witness this, so when we ordered up two sections of outdoor scaffolding, he nodded to the car in the parking lot, and said:

"You gonna put scaffolding on that?"

When we got around back to pick up the scaffolding, though, we were welcomed back, and all the guys who weren't doing anything at the time came out to watch as we stacked four pieces of scaffolding on top of the car, then put four 8 foot crossbraces in the hatchback. One guy who was helping us stood back as I finished lashing it all down with the ratcheting tiedowns, and said:

"You know, that actually works better on there than many pickup trucks we see."

12 years old, over 200,000 miles, and it's still a great little sport utility vehicle!