Monday, May 5th: Ashley to Bryan: "Man, I could really go for some OJ."
Thursday, May 8th: Ashley to Bryan: "I'm totally craving some vitamin C, let's go get some orange juice!" Bryan to Ashley: "I could go for a snack! Let's go!" Ashley to Bryan: "Really?! Let's do it!"
As the door closes our adventure begins.
We took Bryan's trusty silver Camry to the Pig at 11:00pm on that fateful Thursday evening. The air was warmish and humid, like a hot shower that had begun to filter out of the bathroom. The mood, light. The grocery list, short. Let's go.
We rounded up our trusty OJ and headed to the lone cashier. It only takes one person to run the store in the middle of a Thursday night, and I was impressed. Real impressed. We move quickly to the parking lot, hop in the car, sing one line of some 80's song a little too loud, then... dun dun duuuuu... click click click click click...
Ashley to Bryan: "What's wrong?"
Bryan to Ashley: "Won't start."
click click click click click
(Everyone we know, practically, has already gone home for the summer)
Ashley to Bryan: "Martin can help!"
Martin does help. We negotiated jumper cables out of the lone cashier's trunk onto the batteries of both the silver Camry and Martin's SUV. Afore mentioned silver Camry jumps to a start, as though he had only been a napping old man. A thousand thanks to Martin and off we go.
Because we both remembered hearing somewhere that when you jump a car, if you drive it around for awhile it will get the battery charged again. So we drove. We drove in a zig-zag formation back toward our house. We even drove through McDonald's to spend a McDonald's Dollar on two apple pies. (What a deal!) We drove to the stop light just beyond McDonald's and 'pewwwwww pew pewwww' into hibernation mode.
Ashley to Bryan: "Died again!"
Bryan to Ashley: "Died again."
Car rolls to the shoulder across the street.
Ashley to Bryan: "Martin again?"
Bryan to Ashley: "I hate to bother him again."
Ashley to Bryan: "We could walk. It's only a couple miles."
We walk.
You may not be able to read this... The pink line indicates our journey on foot. The 'x' on the far left shows the shoulder where we left the car. The top right pink 'x' shows where our house is. (and if you'll note the football stadium directly underneath the 'ABANDONED ARCHITECTURE BUILDING' you'll be able to get some sense of scale of this map.)
To get home we had to cross though the 'HAIRY SCARY FRATERNITY FOREST', 'MAGICAL LAND OF BOOKS', 'ABANDONED ARCHITECTURE BUILDING', 'LAND OF ABANDONED DORMS', 'WEARY TRAVELER'S TRAIL', and the 'DARK BLACK DUNGEON'...
2.5 miles and 45 minutes of walking later we make it to the car that works, only to later find that we purchased Wal-Mart jumper cables for no good reason. The silver Camry wouldn't budge. We had to leave him on the side of the road until we could get a new battery this morning. Now he's fine. I guess. Finally made it home around 1:00am.
Awh, poor you two! Such a long walk.. good to hear the car is doing fine again.
ReplyDeleteIn Holland we have lots of classes. Of course history, drawing, buildingmaterials, buildingproces, all other materials like floors and more, color, light and all those things. What classes did you get in college? Maybe you can show me some of your creations/designs?
Did you already found a job or are you going to start your own business?
That sucks. First the farmer's market, and now this. You guys need to move from the Golden Triangle. STAT.
ReplyDeleteSAD! I agree with Crystal! It won't be too long...how's the packing coming?
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