800 Miles
I've driven 800 miles the past three days, making the trek to Los Angeles and back. My wife and daughter were with me, so as you can imagine we made a lot of rest stops.
Gas station restrooms are not what they used to be. There once was a time when the stalls in the men's rooms had crude pictorials of genitalia, dirty limericks and "personal ads" with phone numbers. ("Here I sit, broken-hearted..." etc.) Now all you see are undecipherable gang tags. It makes me nostalgic for the "good old days" when there was something to read. What is the world coming to?
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Posted 9/05/2004 11:52:00 PM
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welcome home goodman family! don't ya just LOVE driving in California! Seems that me n sis ally bout wore ourselves out... but it wasn't the driving.. it was the serious fun between the miles! glad ya made it back... now take a couple days off to vacation from yer vacation, i know I need to!
pee ess.... upon re-readin, you reminded me that off in that treehuggin network i'm so shamelessly exploiting, i started a discussion in a freewheeling forum based on nothing but... dirty limericks. so if ya got any good one's springin to mind... post em or e-mail em to me... i'll see they get all the attention they deserve. and dont get me started! My dad was a master....
My experience has been (being part of a wife/daughter duo) that girly pitstops give the guy in the party a handy excuse for taking his own pit stop. :-)
How were the mitzvah's, by the way?
On my last drive to London I thought just the same thing, the 'ladies' is no different, where has all the 'literature' gone! lol
Oh...and apologies for my extreme ignorance but what is a mitzvah??
dont you all know #7 of the official "road code?' it sez 'pit stops are always determined by the strongest bladder, not the weakest' red? ill let dave explain mitzvahs for ya... i just read a lot, he lives it!
Hi, all! Thanks for the warm welcomes.
A mitzvah is a charitable deed. A bar mitzvah is a Jewish coming-of-age ceremony, often taken when one turns 13. Bar mitzvahs are for boys, bat mitzvahs are for girls. What I attended was a b'nai mitzvah: a combination ceremony for the brother and sister in question. One of the requirements of a bar mitzvah is that the person perform a charitable deed.
We all had a wonderful time, and enjoyed seeing people we hadn't seen in quite a while. I also enjoy meeting new people. I spoke with an international film distributor, and a woman who was a recruiter and judge's wife while volunteering her time to register voters, and an acting professor from an East Coast college.
I do take "handy" advantage of my family's rest stops, the difference being that theirs are mandatory and mine are optional. :)
Dave... is this kinda like how guys make their wives run into the Qwik Shop to ask for directions? It makes it look like it's not really the guy needing the directions... kinda like it makes it look like the pit stop is not their idea. Admit it.. In the back of your mind you're saying, "Thank GOODNESS we get to stop again!" LOL (j/k)
We only make cookie/pop stops on our road trips. Yum! Of course, we have never ventured beyond 3.5 hours with our little one.
I only ask for directions if I'm late for something I don't want to be late for. Otherwise:
* I like getting lost and meandering around. I learn more that way.
* I don't generally need directions, because I have a great sense of direction and how to get places.
* I have a map, a Pocket PC and a GPS.
* I don't ask for directions because the directions you get from people or computers are often wrong. I trust maps.
* I used to do field service, driving all over Los Angeles and neighboring counties to service machines. If you can navigate around LA, you can navigate anywhere.
You never can get lost when ya know which direction the sun sets, Dave It's fun to meander....
I use the sun a lot. And stars. When you're in deep forest, the only thing that works is a compass and dead reckoning.
I have a cool map I picked up in Tokyo. Instead of your standard street map, it has the profile of the buildings, so you can orient yourself by the skyscrapers and other landmarks. Clever! Some day I'll tell you the story of how I got my boss to stop making fun of my gadgets when we got lost in Tokyo. :)
Thanks for the explaination. I knew 'Bar mitzvah' but wasn't sure on the general mitzvah thing. Yet again you are my source of 'something new learnt every day'! lol.
"I've driven 800 miles the past three days... and now I am too pooped to update my blog..." Hmph. :-)
Please write something. I'm having withdrawls. lol
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