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4QGIELIFE
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Tow-truck drivers „ UllClCrtOW
^ t0 be unlikel y figures ofauthori
JEFF SMITH/Tiie BatM
T he world
is filled
with au
thorities, large
and small. Bob
Solo, owner and
proprietor of
Solo’s Garage
and Wrecker
“Nah,” he said. “I read somewhere
that ‘every vote makes a difference,’
and the more I thought about it the
more I figured 1 didn't need that extra
responsibility in my life. “
9:29 p.m.
Service, is constantly reminded of
this as he spends each night pa
trolling for parking offenders in the
city he is sworn to protect.
1 spent an evening with Bob and
his tow truck to see what it is that
makes the man whose job affects so
many, tick.
9:01 p.m.
1 asked Bob how he felt about the
upcoming presidential election — our
Texas governor versus the incumbent
vice president.
“1 don’t much follow politics,”
Bob said. “Look at me. I’m one of the
most important men in town, and I
wasn’t elected.”
Bob went on to tell me about how
he nightly tows over 40 vehicles,
which makes at least forty people im
mobile the next day.
“That’s real power”, he said as we
picked up a maroon Toyota parked il
legally in a handicapped space.
“Do you vote?” I asked him.
As we stopped at a gas station for
snacks, I asked Bob about his hob
bies, his favorite movies and such.
“I don't really watch movies,” he
said. As I questioned him further, it
seemed he hardly grasped current
events at all.
“Sometimes 1 buy these books on
tape and listen to them as the night
goes by,” Bob said. “1 listened to
three volumes of Nancy Drew mys
teries last month. Nothing gets by
Miss Drew, let me tell you.
“She’s a sharp one.”
Bob gets all of his news from other
tow truck drivers, and as it turns out,
several of them have been giving him
false information for their own
amusement. According to Bob Solo,
the U.S. is currently at war with sev
eral alien races and planets. To show
his support for the troops, Bob wears
a green ribbon on the bill of his “Out
for Trout” cap.
“Jose” from time to time. I finally
corrected him, and he apologized.
“1 used to think that I was really
good at remembering names, but it
turned out I just didn’t know a whole
lot of people,” Bob said.
“Is towing a lonely business?” I
asked.
“I wouldn't say that,” Bob said.
“You meet some interesting folk. I
towed a VW bug from an eighty-year
old woman one time.”
“What’s so interesting about that?”
I asked.
“She came out of the store just as I
was hoisting her car away, screaming,
‘Egads and little catfish!”’
“What does that mean?”
“I have no idea,” Bob said.
11:21 p.m.
The night went on, and as we
towed a yellow Pontiac, Bob said
something that took me offguard,
said the car we were dragging beta
us was the same color of his favoriliF
Pokemon.
“Pikachu?”'/ guessed. i
10:44 p.m.
10:12 p.m.
Bob had the habit of calling me
We towed three more cars and a
white GMC pickup. Later we talked
to a few police officers, shared some
information and some coffee. Bob
seemed to feel he was on the same au
thority level as the police, sometimes
even a superior one.
He always talked about his next
round as if it were a superhero’s pa
trol, while the police officers’ like
rounds were a garbage man’s beat.
To Bob, the tow truck driver was the
lone sane voice in a sea of parking
lot chaos.
“No, PsyduCk,” Bob said. “He’s;
little round duck with psychic powee
He’s my favorite.” I decided to in
quire more into this strange revela
tion, and as it turned out, though Boi
hardly watched TV and had not even
been to the movies since Smokeyad
(he Bandit, he was an avid collector
of Pokemon cards. He even attends
tournaments on the weekends.
Why is Psyduck was his favorite.
“Because he can get into the other
minds, that’s why. Psyduck’s always
the one in control. He’s the authority
11:59 p.m.
It had come time for me to make
my departure from Bob’s nightly pa
trol. He had the majority of the
evening still ahead of him, an ever®!
of exerting his power over the unla"-
fully parked vehicles of the city.
That power? The power to tow.
Juan Loya is a sei
journalism ntaji
A sitcom with arias!
Have you ever wondered what would happen if your favorite FRIEND
suddenly broke out into song? No? Well believe us, it would be funny!
The Barber of Seville
New York City Opera National Company
To be performed in Italian and supplemented with English supertitles.
March 21 and 22 at 7:30 PM
Rudder Auditorium
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Want to learn more?
Join us prior to the performance for a Patricia S. Peters Lagniappe Lecture in
the MSC Forsyth Center Galleries at 6:30 PM. Sponsored by the OPAS Guild.
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documentary feature that was
last minute after it received a huge"
at the Sundance Film Festival,
was easily the best film at SXSWandfl*
of the most moving films of this decas
With no previous experience in fil
rector Marc Singer lived with thehw*
less in New York’s subway tunnels fort"
years, documenting the lives of the (xx 1 ?
he lived with. At the end of
Singer received a standing ovationfc 1 '
the packed Paramount Theater. Hump
crowded around the stage to hear the it
soft-spoken Singer talk about his
ence, a story that left many in tears.
A former fashion designer, Singer#
ed visiting the tunnels as a volunteerioM
those in need. He decided to borrowa#
era and shoot a documentary about 1 '
homeless in an effort to raise money to^
them. For two years his crew was-
homeless he documented, and all the®
he used was donated by Kodak. Dun#
two years, AmTrak evicted homeless#
the tunnels. After extensive research,5#
found a government program to help#
of the homeless relocate. Dark Day#
incredible story of hope and
but the story of Singer, who found In?
homeless at the end of filming, is an at®
ing testament of humanity and grace
So the first half of my spring#
was pure film-bliss, with eveni" 1
good films to come. So stayed tun# 1
tomorrow folks, when 1 recount?
good films and the catastropheth# 1 '
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