Hungry children that we were, we trekked a mile and half to go to the Chinese restaurant nearby. At least this time I didn't go crazy on the "Curry Chicken"-fries and instead just got egg drop soup in order to comply with my liquid diet.
Just before we left, I whipped out my phone, brought up Endomondo, and prepared to get my exercise statistic addiction fed.
Then we walked outside. Into a fucking Midwestern hurricane.
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| Fuck you, Midwest. I'll bring torrential rains and enough wind to plant fucking palm trees on your ass. |
WHAT THE FUCK?! I'm not in Miami yet!
I'm not supposed to be dealing with hurricane-caliber winds and rain!
I live in the middle of the fucking continent!
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| There's no water for miles! How does this happen?! |
The boyfriend and I then proceeded to make our trek back to the auto-shop.
We trotted onwards:
Through that awful horizontal rain from too much wind that was blowing directly into our faces.
Through busy four-way stops - crossing streets looking like impoverished vagabonds.
The squeaky chirp-chirp-chirping of my flip-flops as I slowly tread water across concrete sidewalks and uneven pavements.
When we finally arrived at the auto-shop, we were the most pathetic creatures you've ever seen.
Clothes soaked, hair dripping, flip-flops slimy with too much water mixed with grimy puddle sediments, barely able to see through the rain drops scattered across my glasses.
We could have been in a "Save the Animals" commercial narrated by Sarah McLaughlin. Pathetic enough to make you cry until you pay up.
Unfortunately, we were not pathetic enough in order to get a steep discount.
The fat man behind the desk did have a hearty fat-man chuckle at our expense, though.
Ah, I see it's raining outside.
Um, yeah, just a bit....
A bientôt, lovelies.
- parisienne.love
OMG! I can't believe it! I read about the mid-west weather malfunction, I hope you're OK.
ReplyDeleteIt pissing down here, but we don't mind, we're in the middle of the worst drought in 100 years! That's Africa for ya!
Travel safely, my friend. <3. XXX.
Wow...it's so flat where you live! I'd go crazy without seeing any moutains! I live in east Tennesse, so there's quite a big different in landscae! I really like reading your blog by the way- you humor always makes me smile :D. I hate it when it just opens up and pours like that- I wouldn't just hung out in that food place until it calmed down a bit! I also hate it when the wind is so strong is blows your umbrella inside out- which causes the thing to snap :/.
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That is where you reply with:
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MiGOD! How did you survive?!? D: So glad to see you didn't get wrapped around a palm tree :)
My problem is that when I record on the youtube page it will always cat 2min off the end during processing. What I need is a program that will make the video files I record with YouCam smaller so they don't take 2+hours to upload. *Facedesk*
I hope you have a good week and that the car doesn't need much done to it :)
xoxo
Hey some people go out of their way to look like impoverished vagabonds. And who doesn't like to say the word vagabond? V a g a b o n d. I want china soup. Am I getting off topic? I hope you have a blast in the windy city, why are you going anyway? Vaca?! That would be exciting.
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