Highlights of my recient travel to New Mexico:
1) After watching a very hilarious 'Scary Movie 3', I decided to ride with my sister back home in her car, rather than go home with my brother in his car. This turned out to be a wise decision. Upon getting gas for the car and traveling back to the homestead, I decided that I was hungery. As I was strapped for money, my sister offered to buy me food (I love my sister). As we were waiting in the drive thru line at Wendy's, my sister got the idea that we should order a #3 with double the meal, just to be stupid and funny. She got the idea from one of her friends. When we finally got up to the place to order, my sister placed the order and as it was being read back, the girl figured out what it was that we were wanting.
vikki: 'we want a #3 with double meat and a Dr. Pepper to drink!'
girl: ' ok, so that's a triple burger with .... what ?!? '
At this point, I was laughing so hard I couldn't breath and we could barely hear the drive-thru girl. But this is not the end of it. As we drove up to the pick up window, we saw the cashier girl with a very disgruntled look on her face and one of the employees standing behind her. So as we drove up, he smiled and gave us the thumbs up, 'Alright guys, that's cool.' Needless to say, we were still laughing, even when we were trying to eat a 6 pattie burger. Good times !!
2) While looking through the books at Waldenbooks, I made a very wonderful discovery. I always look through the 'sale bin' and look for the good deals. While doing this I found what was one of the best purchases that I've ever made at a bookstore. I found 'the Vampire Book: the encyclopedia for the Undead'. Not only was it a festive buy, but it was also on sale, and with my Preferred Reader' card I got an additional 10% off. So I really paid less than the price that was on the sticker. Excellent !!
3) While driving the uhaul from Provo to New Mexico, I was in the mood for some tunes to keep me company. Unfortunately, uhaul trucks are not known for their quality stereo system. All I had to keep me awake was an Am/Fm 'older than dirt' radio. Strike two: there are very few towns between Provo and Fruitland, NM. and they are few and far between. Strike three: It was the late evening, which means I could only pick up meaningless talk show radio and high school football broadcasts. So as I travel along on my 7 hour drive, I have a fine variety of Contemporary Christian rock, Country music, po-dunk high school football, and radio evangelists. The only good thing about his whole experience, I caught up on my LeAnn Rimes singing and my Alan Jackson lyrics, which have sadly dwindled over the past few years. But someone was looking out for me because when I thought I couldn't take it anymore and was on the verge of driving into oncoming traffic, I would pick up an oldies (50's) station and that would pull me back from the brink of insanity. Lesson Learned: Always have a portable CD player with you wherever you go.
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