Interesting Recipe For Regret · 5:44am Jul 24th, 2016
Take one blue raspberry icee at a movie theater
Add two beers at dinner
Mix liberally with two cups of coffee with dessert
Combine all in a bladder that's trapped in a car on the highway just before an underpass that has four feet of water from a flash flood for two hours
Regret.
(I fixed the main problem. I can cross 'pissing on a national highway' off my weird-shit bucket list. Still trapped on the highway, though.)
UPDATE: I survived and made it back to the place I'm staying without dying. Other exciting things from that excursion:
I stood on a national highway smoking a cigarette with no fear of being run over without any chemicals impairing my judgment. Twice.
There were a total of seven cars that were mostly submerged in the underpass and I'm not convinced that they were all devoid of people. I hope everyone's okay.
A man further back in the trap apparently started vomiting blood, prompting a gang of people to call emergency services then go racing from car to car looking for a doctor. I hope that man's okay.
After three hours, being told by the police to K-turn and go back the way we came and off through a ramp was a rather lackluster end to the whole affair.
Escaping such a situation, but then having an additional twenty minute commute to get where you're going, is the most aggravating thing on the planet.
The whole thing would have been less unpleasant if I wasn't car-mates with someone reading a magazine and spouting off quotes about Trump's proposed policies for the whole duration.
Any pot in a storm
Stay safe out there…
And you obviously never went on family road trips as a child. I think I crossed that off my list somewhere around the age of 6.
Stay safe in that weather buddy.
Yeah, just wait till you're an old fart. You won't even make it out of the movie theater after the icee...
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That resulted in a good laugh while trapped and waiting for something to change.
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Roadtrips are for happy families.
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I made it through the movie, but there were five pit-stops at actual bathrooms inside that recipe that went unmentioned. Old fartitude is closer than I'd like.
Trump's policies? No such thing for the most part.
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Proposed policies. They were allowed to be vague and contradict each other.
I must know: Does Trump sound less insane the more the supporter talks about him?
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Well, the car-mate is not a Trump supporter, he was reading out detracting statements made by a variety of people about policy.
Which is not to say that I am a Trump supporter and was annoyed by the denigration because of that. I just hate the politics dog and pony show and don't want to hear anything about either side at all, because it's all crap.