Car Survivor, Day VII

Published on July 19, 2004 under Florida State League (FSL1)
Brevard County Manatees News Release


Day seven has arrived at Space Coast Stadium and Darlene and Carlos (Darlos or Carlene, if you're into the Bennifer Hollywood name thing) the final two contestants are hanging tough.

At 7:14 pm today the pair will have logged in a total of 168 hours, or exactly seven days. A week doesn't seem that long if you're one of the contestants at a Furniture Store in Virginia that is having contestants sit outside under a tent in a make shift living room watching TV in hopes of winning that living room suite. But sit inside a Geo Metro with the windows down with a canopy that barely covers the car providing minimal shade and shelter from the storms and you have a whole new ballgame!

And that game is right here: Car Survivor sponsored by Lathem Auto Sales, inc. and co-sponsored by ESPN Radio 1060 AM and shade provided by our friends at Coca-Cola, because they're really cool people, too!

Attached is a photo of the back of the car, beginning to fill up with trash leftover from meals/drinks consumed in the car.

What have you accomplished in the past seven days? Think about that. What if you erased the last week of your life and rewrote it sitting inside a subcompact car? In fact, what if you were actually driving the car down the interstate? How far would you have traveled in the time each contestant stayed with the car? I know each of you will send me a screaming email saying my factoring doesn't meet your driving conditions, but here's what we determined to be mitigating factors in the Car Survivor driving experience: 70 mph on the interstate, periodic restroom/food/stretch breaks, a state patrolman/woman hiding under an overpass every 50 miles just to keep honest people honest, extreme periods of traffic including blue hairs driving 15 mph under the limit in bumper-to-bumper rush hours, road contraction, and no stops and any choke-n-puke that would cause any undo distress to our travelers forcing a midnight stop at a Bentonville, Arkansas chain store for some Maalox. With that being said, here are the comparisons to how far each has actually traveled.

Glad you asked, because here's the skinny:

Shannon: 3:00, or 180 miles

Shannon had enough time to juke down to Miami during her short-but-furious burst in the Metro.

James: 21:16, or 1,275 miles

James, who talked a mean game, had enough time to drive up to Portsmouth, NH for some lobster.

Will: 73:46, or 4,395 miles

Will jumped ship for the Cremation Certificate on Thursday night. Will had time to drive out AND BACK to Las Vegas, NV and enjoy the sunny desert (read: inferno) and could've had a smoking good time, got burned by a cruel sun, hit an awesome pizza place for real brick over pizza in Vegas, avoided heading through the mountains and ASHeville, NC, and yet, he opted for the cremation certificate. Which takes us to Darlos.

Carlos/Darlene: 168:00, or 10,080 miles At 7:14 pm today they will have invested (yes, we think this is an investment) enough time to drive from stately Space Coast Stadium to Orlando, FL to Seattle, WA back to Miami, FL west to Los Angeles, CA and north to Boise, ID.

ROAD TRIP!

That's 10,080 miles, give or take a swing through a Waffle-style restaurant or two for nourishment.

Now, how was your week?

Buck

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