A Store Walking Down the Street

I recently came across this sentence in a novel: "It was the kind of store I loved to see walking down the street when I was a kid." Whoooo. I'd like to see any kind of store walking down the street!

I was thinking about that particular gaffe while I was walking down the street today. I happened to see something that made me realize the sentence wasn't totally ludicrous — a house rolling passed me. Okay, it was being towed, but still, it was moving along the street instead of being securely...