It's about that corner in Winslow, Arizona

The corner in Winslow, Arizona. Catch the truck off to the right. This photo came from my friend but names and images have been left out to protect the guilty.

Any guy who's ever hitchhiked has entertained the fantasy of being picked up by a beautiful woman in a fancy car and, as Robert Frost might have written it, she takes him places, and she takes him places.

A statue of Glenn Frey, who co-wrote
the song, was placed near the corner
in September 2016

That fantasy was memorialized in the Eagles' song "Take It Easy" with the line "Well, I'm standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona. I'm such a fine sight to see. It's a girl, my lord, in a flat bed Ford slowing down to take a look at me." Who hasn't heard that song and that line and put himself on that corner?

So today, during a long drive, the song came up on the stereo but when the line rang out, the girl in the flatbed Ford wasn't there. Instead it was three friends in Facebook photos standing on the very same corner, two scruffy Alaskans and one beautiful Arizona woman who I'm pretty sure doesn't drive a flatbed Ford.  Wait, what? The image would not go away and the song passed without any more accompanying harmonies from me.

The thought lingered for a while. How dare reality wipe out a perfectly good fantasy, but it is probably gone forever. Like they say once you see something you can't unsee it. The song's still good, it just won't be the same any more.

And much as I love my friends, I want that girl in the flatbed Ford back. Fortunately or unfortunately I still have the four that want to own me, two that want to stone me and the one says she's a friend of mine. And, still out there, also, is "that lover who won't blow my cover;" don't you know,  "she's so hard to find."

 

 

 

Eagles "Take It Easy."

A BIT OF AN AFTERTHOUGHT: Someone July 7, 2014, found this post using the search words "real teen girls naked Winslow Arizona." I'm pretty sure he didn't find what he was looking for here.