Oddity

Back in 1993, A.J. Foyt announced his retirement from racing. Tom happened to be present at his last Indy 500 race, something to do with Tom's law business though unrelated to Foyt or to the race itself, and he met the great man. Tom enjoyed the experience of the race, but he says that he lost interest after A.J. retired. Today he is a NASCAR fan, of course, a big supporter of Joey Logano.

Although there is a NASCAR event this evening -- the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway -- we have a conflicting commitment and Tom will miss the race. So he decided to watch at least part of the Indy 500 to get his racing fix.

I was down in my office when Tom came downstairs muttering. He had turned on the television in the living room to watch the race, which was being broadcast on ABC. But it was being announced in Spanish. Thinking there was something wrong with that cable box, he came to check the television down here. It is also cable but has a different box. 

Spanish, again. 

We checked the other channels and they were broadcasting their regular programs in English. Tom checked the small television in  his office, which is not hooked into the cable, and the race was in English. We tried changing the settings on the larger televisions. We could not change the race from Spanish to English, nor could we change any of the English programs to Spanish. Some weird glitch with the cable provider. 

The Spanish announcers sounded much more excited than the usual English announcers. They must have used guys who normally cover the World Cup. There were English subtitles, and I could follow the Spanish well enough to see that the subtitles were keeping pretty good pace with the action. Whenever a commercial came on, it was in English.

Well, that's our story and we're sticking to it.