Blog O’ Obscurity

It seems like it nowadays. Everywhere you look there is someone on a motor scooter trying to save money on gas. With a commute of less than three miles, I decided to join in on the new trend. Easier said than done.

Took me almost a month to find one.

I was somewhat surprised that my small town didn’t have any scooters at the dealership, but I soon moved on to look in neighboring small towns, then in Vegas, and finally in Phoenix.

One dealership had a half dozen of the small scooters that I was looking for. Lucky me. I ended up with an Adly Jet 50. I’ll let you know more about it after a few weeks of taking it to work and around town.

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I actually got to visit alot of places while on vacation with my family when I was young. For several years, we had a big family vacation each summer. Once we went to Colorado, once to Michigan, once to New Mexico and once to Florida (that was actually for a funeral but we went to Disney World so we could call it a vacation). By far, the place I visited most was California. Usually I would go to Disneyland but, once upon a time, the family car packed with 9 people went to San Francisco.

We’ve all heard Bill Cosby talk about San Francisco (if you haven’t, you MUST) and he does not exaggerate when he talks about the hills. Of all the things to do in San Francisco, my dad decided we would go down the curviest street in the world and so we proceeded to Lombard Street. The curves are tiny and they plant flowers along the sides to mark where your grave will be when you die there. At least that’s how we felt as we slowly snaked our boat of a station wagon HAULING A TRAILER down the street. Even if my dad had not chosen to ignore the sign that says trailers aren’t allowed, we couldn’t have turned back since everybody else who went on vacation that summer also decided to go down this street. We were all white knuckling it but we finally made it to the bottom without running down the flowers.

Now if you actually want something fun to do, go to the San Diego zoo. What I remember most about that place was the fact that it was beautiful. I’m perpetually exposed to ‘beautiful mountain vistas’ (read: dead hills) and ‘gorgeous sunsets’ (read: smog filled air) of Arizona so I know ugly when I see it. I saw no ugly at this place. It was the perfect temperature (I suspect they ran air conditioning out there) and all the animals were out (which they won’t do during an AZ summer). For the first time, I actually saw the animals my local zoo claims to have but which I had never seen.

Summer is coming up so if you need family vacation ideas, now is the time to start looking. Trusted Tours and Attractions can be one of the resources you use. You can sign up for their newsletter and have them think up ideas for you. If you sign up soon, you’ll be entered in a drawing for an iPod nano. The offer ends March 31, 2008.

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Sometimes I can’t think up anything to write on this blog. Today I only had to figure out how to start it.

Should it be,

1) ” A funny thing happened on the way to the forum…”

2) “Call me Ishmael”

or 3) “Oh crap, the car’s on fire! Call 911!”

In reality, choice number 3 will start today’s entry. This is a true story of how my husband and I spent last night.

“Oh crap, the car’s on fire! Call 911!”

Husband runs out and starts shooting water on the car with a hose. Wife calls fire department and REPEATEDLY tries to go look at the fire while still on the phone only to be yanked back by the cord. (ok, I look like a chicken with my head cut off sometimes).

Wife completes call and goes outside. Husband requests fire extinguisher. Wife gets it and begins to use it. Husband and wife exchange hose and extinguisher (I don’t know why). Extinguisher is extinguished, fire is still going.

Husband retakes the hose and wife notices a chill in the air. Goes and gets Husband pants. Takes hose while Husband puts on pants. With pants on, Husband reclaims the hose again and continues the battle.

Wife decides Daughter is sleeping in room too close to flaming car and removes her from the vicinity, wakes Children (just in case) and has them sit in the hallway.

Fire Department arrives and battles flames beating in the hood of the car in a valiant effort to get it open and put out the fire beneath. Husband and Wife stand in direct line of smoke coming off fire but realize they should move.

Success! Fire is out.

Blast it’s 1 o’clock in the morning, and no one is awake to call and tell about the big deal.

Husband and Wife realize car is going nowhere fast and is blocking in the only remaining unburnt car. They retire to bed to figure that problem out in the morning.

THE END

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