Tennessee

June 7, 2010 2 Comments

Time:   9:03pm
Mileage:  1,987.7
Driver:  Laura
Song:   The dulcet voice of Julie on the telephone

Kentucky and Tennessee are beautiful country .. met a couple of interesting folk at the gas station as we left Kentucky.  First, there was Amin, the teeth (plural) impaired proprietor.  Then, imagine a rasta dude in dirty clothes, sitting on the ground with his crack -looking, dockworker-sounding girlfriend.  Imagine then, if you heard a well spoken british accent saying “Lovely ladies!  Lovely ladies!” and it almost sounded as if they were talking to you.  Turning around you see said rasta dude and girlfriend still lounging on the ground in front of the gas station door talking to you and pointing.  Imagine then if they asked you for a ride.

What would you do?  What would you do?

Day 2, State Lines
2 Comments to “Tennessee”
  1. Windy says:

    I’d tell them if they could answer this riddle right I’d give them a ride…

    You’re a farmer with a boat, on one side of a river. With you is your fox, your chicken, and a sack of grain. You can only take one with you on your boat to cross. If you leave the chicken alone with the grain, you can kiss your grain goodbye. If the chicken and the fox are left alone together, let’s just say you’ll have a happy fox. How do you get all three across?

  2. Laura says:

    Uhhh…say sorry, the car is packed full?

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