Sunday, June 7, 2009

Road trip recap

My most loyal reader and commenter, Justin, visited Joe and I in NY this weekend. The three of us rode together from DC to NY, and bad traffic meant that we were in the car together for about six hours. After the first hour, we decided our conversation should be recorded for posterity. Since the entire car ride takes up about three single-spaced pages, I am only including the highlights here.

6:11 p.m.: Justin and Joe discuss where the nearest Sonic is. In the following minute, Cookout, Bojangles, and Quizno’s are mentioned.
6:12 p.m.: Joe bitches about price of Quizno’s sandwich and mentions Butcher Block (Irish deli in NY).
6:14 p.m.: Joe debates stopping at Chik-Fil-A.
6:15 p.m.: Justin mentions Sbarro.
6:16 p.m.: I mention to Justin and Joe that in the past 5 minutes, they’ve mentioned at least 6 food places.
6:17 p.m.: Joe’s foot is warm. Justin offers to blow on it.
6:27 p.m.: Justin wasn’t 5 feet tall until the 10th grade. Joe’s growth spurt was in 9th grade. Mandy was taller in 6th grade than Justin was in 10th.
6:28 p.m.: Justin tells vulgar joke about his college growth spurt.
6:38 p.m.: Joe wants ice cream. Or protein.
6:39 p.m.: Joe wishes he had a banana.
6:57 p.m.: Justin tells us about an idea for an I “sorta kinda like” NY shirt, where the words “sorta kinda like” are in the shape of a heart, and in red letters.
7:07 p.m.: Kevin Smith wanted Superman to battle a giant spider. Giant spider instead appeared in Wild Wild West (and Harry Potter).
7:14 p.m.: See Chik-Fil-A sign.
7:14 p.m.: Joe drives to Chik-Fil-A exit.
7:15 p.m.: Discussion of Chik-Fil-A shakes. Joe likes chocolate. I think it tastes fake.
7:17 p.m.: Justin loves mayonnaise.
7:17 p.m.: Justin tries to convince Joe and I that a peanut butter, banana and mayonnaise sandwich is great. We don’t believe him.
7:43 p.m.: I finish eating, so does Justin. While eating, we discussed Justin getting a picture of himself sitting on Santa’s lap and sending it as a Christmas card.
7:44 p.m.: Joe’s milkshake straw not functioning well. Justin suggests using a chicken nugget to scoop it up.
7:50 p.m.: Observe that traffic is moving much better now, but we’re still in Maryland. Christian fast food places fix traffic problems.
8:04 p.m.: Justin is annoyed by Joe’s milkshake sucking noises.
8:05 p.m.: “Water Shed” is what Justin calls himself in the shower.
8:10 p.m.: Drive by guy driving while wearing a red graduation cap and gown.
8:18 p.m.: Justin may now be an uncle. We are all quieter, possibly in food comas.
8:22 p.m.: Welcome to NJ. We were in Delaware for 16 minutes.
8:24 p.m.: Justin and Joe have discussion about Jeff Teague while I text message a friend. In my mind, no Wake Forest moment will ever top the time Chris Paul punched that guy in the balls.
8:29 p.m.: Joe asks if Riley Skinner’s “skinner” was better. Nope.
8:39 p.m.: C3PO was gay.
8:44 p.m.: Justin makes another vulgar joke, worse than the first. He will be a bad
influence on his new nephew.
9:05 p.m.: Justin goes through a family pack of chicken every few days.
9:38 p.m.: Noticed that I lost my pen.. Joe gave me another one. Oh yay, I can keep being secretary.
9:45 p.m.: Justin tells us about old Winston-Salem slogans.
9:50 p.m.: I try to play anagrams with Winston-Salem. Slam wine snot; slam lots wine
9:56 p.m.: Male won snits
10:02 p.m.: Decide someone should start a “Little Canada”
10:02-10:09 p.m.: Discuss every possible touristy thing to do in NY.
10:22 p.m.: Notice that the boat in front of us is called the “Lusty Squid.”
10:28 p.m.: Wet mans loins
10:35 p.m.: Justin is intrigued by Giovanni’s Pizza, which serves tacos, burritos, tortas, tamales and guaraches.
10:35 p.m.: Joe explains street numbering in Queens to Justin, and explains that it bears no relation to Manhattan street numbering. I don’t think Justin cares.

Now that you've made it to the end of some of the more entertaining snippets of our conversations, let me reward you with a very blurry picture I took when we finally made it onto the Verrazano Bridge.

Don't worry, my first "grown-up job" purchase will be a digital SLR.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

I really do love mayonnaise.

(vitigh)

Unknown said...

Tonight, I grilled two family packs of chicken breasts.

True story.

(pringshe)