First off, I totally scored this Christmas. I got a new jacket, Bones Season 1 DVD Set, and a bunch of other stuff.
Second, I'm a total klutz. I hurt myself five times in two days.
Third, I have writers block and I really want to finish my fanfic but the words just aren't there.
I'm finally going to write about my road trip to California. I'm going to be brutally honest because I don't know how else to tell this story. However, if my friends ever read this they will no longer be my friends.
This is the whole story from begging to end. It is long and I've changed the names to protect the innocent.
Me and my friend both like the Price Is Right and had heard that Bob Barker is retiring in June. We thought it would be a good idea to drive down there to get in and see the show. My friend's name is Jane. Jane, John (Jane's boyfriend), and I all work together. Jane said that she would talk John into going so that we could split the costs. I thought that's fine because I like John. I've know him longer than Jane. Jane said that her mom could drive us down to LA where her brother and sister live and that we could stay there. I thought that's great because it'll save us a lot of money. Jane did warn me that her brother was weird like her. I said that was no problem because she's really not that bad. The original plan was to drive down to LA on Saturday and then drive right back after the taping on Tuesday.
But then plans go changed. Her mom lives 150 miles south of us. We had planned on driving down there really early on Saturday in my car but now we had to drive down there on Friday night so we could leave really early from there. That was no problem with me except I'd never driven down there and it's not the easiest place to drive at anytime. But the drive went perfectly fine. There was no traffic or rain. I did like 80 the whole way down.
Anyway we got Jane's mom's house and it was scary. She has to be the worst pack rat on the planet. The house is filled with junk. Plastic crap from the claw machines and all this really bad home made jeweler from Wal-Mart. Jane's mom doesn't even look like her. I was really confused but she was nice. The house was really dirty. You could see the dust balls in the corners. In the morning we were supposed to leave at 7 am and I was fine with that.
I got up at 6 am so I could all ready. I was ready to go by 7 am but Jane and John weren't even up. Jane's mom, who'll I'll name Joy, was cooking all these cookies. We didn't end up leaving until 10:30 am. I have this huge pet peeve about being on time but I was holding it together. I just kept telling myself that the taping wasn't until Tuesday and as long as I got in I'd be okay. The van we drove down is this huge GMC Gladiator. It was huge and a gas guzzler. Joy drives like a maniac. Really. We had to go over this pass that's not very fun to take. I mean it's really bad but she took it doing 80 and flashing her headlights and honking the horn if people were going to slow in the fast lane. I thought that I'd get shot. I called my mom from time to time to inform her that this woman was crazy and to go ahead and sue if I was in a car accident. It was a long drive. Half way down, I was informed that no, Jane's sister and brother don't live in LA, but in San Bernardino. Which I also come to find out is the ghetto of the whole area. I've been to LA once and I didn't like it. But after this trip I'm never going back unless I'm going to be on Jeopardy. We didn't get to their house until mid-night. And I was thankful to land on solid ground.
But I come to find out that 7 people are staying a 2 bedroom apartment with two dogs. I just about jumped back in the van to drive myself back. This apartment was even worse than the house and didn't even have towels to take a shower with. Me and John both looked at each other like "Oh My God, what did we get into?" Me, Jane, and John all ended up crashing in the same room with no door. We slept until Noon on Sunday. We ended up eating Burger King for breakfast and IHOP for dinner. Sunday was pretty much a bust because we spent it just sitting around watching TV. Jane's sister has the most annoying child ever. I almost yelled at him to shut up but then I remember that it could be much worse. I could be out on the street in the middle of LA with nowhere to go.
Okay, this the first post in a series.
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