hi work, good to see you too – NOT
Did everyone have a nice 4th? We did. The weather was hot and beautiful and we spent the holiday either at the pool or following the shade around our campsite. We camped at a place called Town & Country (where the “Country” is hilariously lacking, as we can walk to a pizza joint and the view is mainly of electricity towers). But it’s actually a great campground with a nice pool and close proximity to a building with an automatic underground sprinkler system. (CUE FORESHADOWING MUSIC: Dun-dun-dun)
Scene: 4:00 am
[Sounds of rain splattering against the tent briefly before stopping.]
Shauna, thinking: Wow. That was the shortest storm ever.
[Sounds of rain starting up again.]
Jason: What the hell?
Shauna: Um…oh, I think we’re in the path of the sprinkler.
Jason: Oh, THAT’S what that is. I’ll go check.
[Jason crouches next to the tent door like a tennis ball retriever, awaiting his opportunity.]
Shauna: Go, go, go!
[Sounds of water splatting forcefully against the side of the tent.]
Jason: Ahh! It got me!
[More water hits the tent.]
Shauna: It’s like being in a car wash!
Jason: Look out! Here comes another one!
Shauna: How long do you think this will last?
Jason: I don’t know, but now I’m wide awake.
[FYI: The sprinklers last for 20 minutes.]
Scene: Next day
Jason: Let’s move our tent over here so it can dry out.
Shauna: It’s really windy. Should we stake it down?
Jason. No.
[Gust of wind grabs tent and sends it flipping over a car.]
Shauna: I told you s-
Jason: Shut up.
[Tent now has 10-inch gash in side.]
***
We are looking to buy Jason a small pickup because his car cannot be trusted at all. Oh, you want to go to the grocery store? Perhaps I won’t start. You want to drive 90 miles? Well, I’ll just start making weird flapping noises that multiple trips to the mechanic can’t diagnose. Oh, it’s July? Guess what? The air conditioning no longer works.
Anyway, we had the perfect truck picked out online to test drive and when Jason called today to see if it was still available, he found it sold on Thursday. Now I’m calling other possibilities and dealing with pushy salespeople.
Sales dude: Nope, that one sold. But I have another older truck here with 50,000 more miles for $10,000 more, are you interested?
Um, NO.
Ugh, what a Monday, eh?
Every attempt we made to camp was thwarted by everyone else in southern Wyoming and northern Colorado. Not a campsite to be found.
We fished and caught one fish each. We fished in three streams and two lakes. I snapped my new fly rod in two.
And it was all still LOADS better than work today. Bah.
Good luck looking for a vehicle. YUCK. Y. Bleh.
Comment by Artemisia — July 7, 2008 @ 3:05 pm
Bleh, car shopping. Good luck with that.
Comment by nonsoccermom — July 7, 2008 @ 3:25 pm
Sounds like the first truck was a good deal! Actually, it sounds like it’s good that you aren’t working with that sales guy. Ick.
Comment by Jess — July 7, 2008 @ 3:42 pm
Life would be sooooo much easier if the husbands just listened to us, right?! Good luck with the truck shopping!
Comment by Julie — July 7, 2008 @ 3:54 pm
haaaaa. sprinklers. that’s pretty awesome. one of the places we camped last summer was right next to a road, with a street lamp shining into our tent. SO REMOTE.
Comment by Alice — July 7, 2008 @ 3:54 pm
Hee! This tent story reminds me of The Breakfast Club.
“Sir, the door is much too heavy…” SLAN! HAHA!
I really, really, wish you could just get good deals on cars on the internet and have them delivered to your house. Car shopping makes me want to DIE.
Comment by Tessie — July 7, 2008 @ 3:55 pm
Car shopping would be totally fun if you didn’t have to deal with the sleazeball sales people. There’s GOT to be a better way!
The tent story was funny. We have underground sprinklers at our house and it always takes us a few incidents like this each year (after we turn the outside water back on) to figure out AH! It’s the sprinklers! We’ve lived here almost 9 years!
Comment by LoriD — July 7, 2008 @ 5:31 pm
Ugh! I HATE car shopping. Also stupid sales people.
Your camping story was funny, though, and makes me want to go camping – no matter how un-country it is!
Comment by Becky — July 7, 2008 @ 7:06 pm
This is why I am so not cut out for camping. I’d probably cry about this.
Comment by slynnro — July 7, 2008 @ 9:47 pm