THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Sunday, September 25, 1994 TAG: 9409230201
SECTION: VIRGINIA BEACH BEACON PAGE: 03 EDITION: FINAL
LENGTH: Long : 123 lines
Thursday, Sept. 15
4:45 p.m. - The toll road.
Two young ladies notice a man in the next lane staring at them.
He smiles, winks and blows kisses. He beeps his horn and waves as if he knows them, but the girls do not respond to his flirtatious gestures.
Instead, they speed up. He speeds up, too.
They slow down. The man slows down with them.
Finally, after a few minutes of playing cat and mouse with the girls, the fellow steers his red Cavalier off at the Oceana exit.
His license plate explains it all. It reads: MR GOOB.
- Holly Wester
Friday, Sept. 16
8:47 p.m. - A pet store.
The store is abuzz with activity. Customers look up and down the aisles at the different animals. A salesclerk plays with a brown and black puppy at the store's entrance. Birds hop and squawk inside their cages.
A man and a woman in their early 20s look toward the dog cages with smiles on their faces. They laugh and point at the puppies' antics.
Most of the dogs are in individual cages, but one houses two dogs - one is black and the other, white. While the other dogs sleep and watch the crowds outside their cages, the black and white dogs fight, hopping on and biting one another.
The young woman watches the two dogs battle. She laughs, shakes her head and asks her friend: ``Can't we all just get along?''
- Larry W. Brown
Saturday, Sept. 17
9:45 a.m. - Brigadoon neighborhood.
Garage sale shoppers are out in force as the west Kempsville neighborhood sponsors its semiannual sale.
One bargain hunter, however, is using the occasion to deliver a different kind of message.
His champagne-colored Dodge Caravan has a hand-lettered sign hanging in the back window that says:
``LIGHTS ON FOR STAY OUT OF HAITI''
- Kevin Armstrong
8:30 p.m. - Rodeo at Princess Anne Park.
The park has been overrun by people in cowboy hats and boots.
In one section of bleachers there sits an unforgiving crowd.
``DOWN IN FRONT!,'' bellows an older woman with gray hair.
``WE CAN'T SEE THROUGH YOU!'' another voice pipes in.
``YEAH, WE PAID $10, TOO!'' yells a masculine voice.
The object of their comments? Several folks in tall cowboy hats are standing at the arena's metal fence blocking the view of the calf roping event.
- Lori A. Denney
Sunday, Sept. 18
10:45 a.m. - Atlantic Shores Baptist Church.
One Sunday school hour is ending and another is about to begin as parishioners flood the hallways. Amid all the hustle, about a dozen antsy 5-year-olds are lined along the wall outside the restrooms.
The teacher is trying to maintain order by allowing only a few children at a time to use the facilities, but they're competing with older kids and adults who don't have to wait their turns.
One young student who has waited patiently now stands at the front of the line for the men's room. A third-grader emerges to exit but not before getting a word of adult-like advice from his younger peer.
``Hey, you forgot to wash your hands!'' the 5-year-old tells him excitedly.
The third-grader stops dead in his tracks and suddenly realizes his omission. ``Oh, yeah,'' he says without a bit of argument. He wheels around to finish his business while the 5-year-old remains just outside the door and resumes his wait.
- Kevin Armstrong
Noon - HQ.
A shopper wears a T-shirt proclaiming: Let's get one thing straight. I'm not.
- Melinda Forbes
Wednesday, Sept. 21
1:50 p.m. - Interstate 264, heading toward Norfolk.
Bumper sticker of the week: Impeach Clinton - Retroactively.
- Lorraine Eaton
9:58 p.m. - Oceana Boulevard.
Sign of the times. A sign over a pay phone in a car wash parking lot reads: Phone from your car.
- Holly Wester
Thursday, Sept. 22
9:40 a.m. - Lighthouse Restaurant, Oceanfront at Rudee Loop.
A stinging northeasterly wind is kicking up the surf and sending sheets of biting sand inland. A few rubberneckers, daring to drive to the beach to witness nature's tantrum, feel the raw force of the gale as it rocks their vehicles.
Near the stone jetty, bordering the restaurant, a flock of pelicans is desperately trying to make headway to the ocean.
The ungainly birds flap a few feet seaward, only to be flung back again and again by violent gusts. Finally they give up and are blown inland, coming to roost in the sanctuary of Rudee Inlet.
Not to be discouraged, however, is a determined duck, wings flapping purposefully. It dips and side-slips this way and that, struggling for every inch of progress. Eventually it disappears into the gloomy haze hanging over the ocean.
- Bill Reed ILLUSTRATION: Rudee Inlet's new span nearing completion
Staff photo by DAVID HOLLINGSWORTH
Construction to add an adjacent bridge to the existing Rudee Inlet
Bridge is 93 percent complete. The $17 million project, which will
widen Rudee Inlet Bridge from two to four lanes - including two
northbound and two southbound lanes - should be completed by Dec. 31
of this year. By Sept. 30, traffic will be rerouted onto the new
portion of the bridge so that pavement work can begin on the old
structure, built in 1966. The project's original completion date was
July 1995.
by CNB