Red Mosquito

dad wrote:my wife and i going to dallas to stay with friends. we planned on leaving Friday after work. then i realized this Saturday is OU/TX. that means I-35 southbound is going to be absolutely bonkers, so we're trying to decide on a possible alternate route, risking a super long drive because of traffic, or leaving early Saturday morning. a friend of mine who's gone to his fair share of OU/TX games (for those unfamiliar, the game is played in Dallas, which is about 3.5 hours south of OKC) advised Saturday mornings can be just as congested on the interstate. my wife, a goddamn saint and a national treasure is also not the most patient person in the world, so sitting in traffic is not ideal. i'm trying to sweeten the pot, seeing if we can leave Friday afternoon by letting her play the audiobook she's been listening to during the ride, while also imbibing in some wine to forget the time.

doug rr wrote:

dad wrote:my wife and i going to dallas to stay with friends. we planned on leaving Friday after work. then i realized this Saturday is OU/TX. that means I-35 southbound is going to be absolutely bonkers, so we're trying to decide on a possible alternate route, risking a super long drive because of traffic, or leaving early Saturday morning. a friend of mine who's gone to his fair share of OU/TX games (for those unfamiliar, the game is played in Dallas, which is about 3.5 hours south of OKC) advised Saturday mornings can be just as congested on the interstate. my wife, a goddamn saint and a national treasure is also not the most patient person in the world, so sitting in traffic is not ideal. i'm trying to sweeten the pot, seeing if we can leave Friday afternoon by letting her play the audiobook she's been listening to during the ride, while also imbibing in some wine to forget the time.

surprise her with a helicopter ride to dallas

dad wrote:

doug rr wrote:

dad wrote:my wife and i going to dallas to stay with friends. we planned on leaving Friday after work. then i realized this Saturday is OU/TX. that means I-35 southbound is going to be absolutely bonkers, so we're trying to decide on a possible alternate route, risking a super long drive because of traffic, or leaving early Saturday morning. a friend of mine who's gone to his fair share of OU/TX games (for those unfamiliar, the game is played in Dallas, which is about 3.5 hours south of OKC) advised Saturday mornings can be just as congested on the interstate. my wife, a goddamn saint and a national treasure is also not the most patient person in the world, so sitting in traffic is not ideal. i'm trying to sweeten the pot, seeing if we can leave Friday afternoon by letting her play the audiobook she's been listening to during the ride, while also imbibing in some wine to forget the time.

surprise her with a helicopter ride to dallas

funny...we were texting our friends and i actually mentioned taking a helicopter there.

too rich for my blood.

Carl Sandburg wrote:There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

tragabigzanda wrote:

dad wrote:my wife and i going to dallas to stay with friends.

your boy's gonna get so much consensual tang

spike wrote:looks like it'd take just over four hours, but you could both relax the whole time.

dad wrote:

spike wrote:looks like it'd take just over four hours, but you could both relax the whole time.

the wife balked at the idea of taking the flyer.

bumper-to-bumper to dallas it is.

doug rr wrote:

dad wrote:

spike wrote:looks like it'd take just over four hours, but you could both relax the whole time.

the wife balked at the idea of taking the flyer.

bumper-to-bumper to dallas it is.

just listen to the mariners game on the radio during the drive

dad wrote:

spike wrote:looks like it'd take just over four hours, but you could both relax the whole time.

the wife balked at the idea of taking the flyer.

bumper-to-bumper to dallas it is.

dad wrote:

doug rr wrote:

dad wrote:

spike wrote:looks like it'd take just over four hours, but you could both relax the whole time.

the wife balked at the idea of taking the flyer.

bumper-to-bumper to dallas it is.

just listen to the mariners game on the radio during the drive

I'll see what i can do. i think we'll be listening to The Devil in the White City. just as long as a baseball game.

spike wrote:

dad wrote:

spike wrote:looks like it'd take just over four hours, but you could both relax the whole time.

the wife balked at the idea of taking the flyer.

bumper-to-bumper to dallas it is.

Well now you can “I told you so” when you’re stuck in gridlock.

wease wrote:

dad wrote:

doug rr wrote:

dad wrote:

spike wrote:looks like it'd take just over four hours, but you could both relax the whole time.

the wife balked at the idea of taking the flyer.

bumper-to-bumper to dallas it is.

just listen to the mariners game on the radio during the drive

I'll see what i can do. i think we'll be listening to The Devil in the White City. just as long as a baseball game.

Let us know how it is. I’ve had it in my stack for years. Someone left it in a plane seat or a seat at the airport or something and I picked it up. Been meaning to read it but have never gotten around to it.