Today has just made me laugh a lot.
First, I was driving my not-so-smooth ride of a car, and I actually got motion sickness from its lack of any kind of shocks. I seriously considered pulling over.
Then I got to my grandparents' house and my grandpa started working on my car. My grandma came out and midsentence through asking me how I was, she turned to my grandpa and disgustedly asked, "Is that the shirt I just bought you?" I looked over and saw a giant hole in both sleeves and paint splatters covering it. He calmly said, "Yes," then turned to me and just smiled a great, big smile. She then said, "You can dress 'em up, but you can't take 'em out." I've only heard that said about small children.
After that, we went out to lunch. I accidentally made awkward eye contact with an old man picking his nose. What to you do? You both know it happened, as much as you would like to not know that it did.
When the waitress came, my grandpa ordered a piece of pie and a coffee. The waitress stopped writing on her pad, said, "One second," and walked away. When she came back, she told my grandpa, "I don't know if you really want pie. All we have is pumpkin, and it's been sitting there for a couple weeks." He just had some coffee.
As lunch went on, he told us a story about growing up (he never really does that, but now I want him to every time I see him). He told us about a time when he and his dad painted the kitchen for his mom. "The old man was a heavy drinker," he said, "but that day he hadn't even had one drink. This was before people knew about fumes though, and when we were done, mom laid into him so hard for getting drunk with me. We didn't even know what was going on, we were still a little loopy."
Yes it was definitely a comical day today, the perfect thing to make me forget that I have to go back to school after a couple weeks of Christmas break bliss.
First, I was driving my not-so-smooth ride of a car, and I actually got motion sickness from its lack of any kind of shocks. I seriously considered pulling over.
Then I got to my grandparents' house and my grandpa started working on my car. My grandma came out and midsentence through asking me how I was, she turned to my grandpa and disgustedly asked, "Is that the shirt I just bought you?" I looked over and saw a giant hole in both sleeves and paint splatters covering it. He calmly said, "Yes," then turned to me and just smiled a great, big smile. She then said, "You can dress 'em up, but you can't take 'em out." I've only heard that said about small children.
After that, we went out to lunch. I accidentally made awkward eye contact with an old man picking his nose. What to you do? You both know it happened, as much as you would like to not know that it did.
When the waitress came, my grandpa ordered a piece of pie and a coffee. The waitress stopped writing on her pad, said, "One second," and walked away. When she came back, she told my grandpa, "I don't know if you really want pie. All we have is pumpkin, and it's been sitting there for a couple weeks." He just had some coffee.
As lunch went on, he told us a story about growing up (he never really does that, but now I want him to every time I see him). He told us about a time when he and his dad painted the kitchen for his mom. "The old man was a heavy drinker," he said, "but that day he hadn't even had one drink. This was before people knew about fumes though, and when we were done, mom laid into him so hard for getting drunk with me. We didn't even know what was going on, we were still a little loopy."
Yes it was definitely a comical day today, the perfect thing to make me forget that I have to go back to school after a couple weeks of Christmas break bliss.
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