Funny Fridays

Hi everyone! Happy TGIF!!! On my way to work I decided to make Fridays on my blog, 'Funny Fridays'. This means I plan to tell you some funny stories and hope you get some good giggles in for the day. I hope to make this a weekly thing but some things I find funny, other people...not so much.lol. But here it goes.....

Kim and Shawn's trip to B.C.

About 9 years ago (give or take a little) my friend Shawn and I opted to drive up to B.C. and have some fun with friends that were already out there. On the way out we experienced MANY weird things....like fog, oh, the fog....it was not enjoyable. I was driving along and the roads as we headed out of Regina. Since I get car sick we had agreed that I would drive in the prairies and he would handle driving in the mountains. The roads were great and Shawn, for whatever reason said 'Watch, I bet as soon as I start driving, it will start raining'. He was 'almost' right and I should have told him to knock on wood if I thought it was possible for us to encounter rain....but it was just so nice out. However, it became his turn to drive and within three minutes we were hit with heavy fog which I just found pretty funny considering Shawn had made that comment prior to getting in the drivers seat. Poor, poor Shawn. OH how I owe you for driving through that crap!!!

Another thing we experienced was exhaustion since Shawn had to do the majority of the driving as I tend to get car sick which makes me very nauseous, groggy and sleepy. With us being so sleepy we decided to make a pit stop and take a snooze.
Both of us were far too cheap at the time to spend money on a room for the night so we opted to take a nap in the car. This wouldn't have been such an odd thing to do but it wasn't exactly warm out but Shawn insisted on saving gas and turning off the car. This meant I was cold and when I'm cold, I have to pee and if I have to pee, it means I can't sleep!!! However, at some point we got a bad case of the giggles b/c I insisted we leave the keys in the ignition so that if someone in the parking lot approached the vehicle we could make a quick get-a-way. Apparently I thought we were fugitives at the time.

But all the fog, the exhaustion, the car sickness and The Spice Girls (did I mention we listened to them NON-STOP and NO, I will not lower my head in shame) were worth it just to have such a gem of a story to tell....trust me, it's good (atleast to me).lol.

Now somewhere along the way, I decided to try this good ol' driving in the mountains thing. I mean, I was feeling okay and thought it was fair to give Shawn a break. The weather was good, the roads looked good so I thought, why not give it a go....
Well, I never mentioned these things before but I think they are key to the story. Take these things into consideration while reading/picturing this:

#1 - Shawn and I, by NO means were small people at the time. Shawn is a skinny minny now but back then, (and still currently for me) we were probably above what is considered obese.
#2 - Shawn can be stubborn. Don't deny it Shawn, you know it's true.lol.
#3 - it was my FIRST TIME driving in the mountains
#4 - Shawn thought at the time he knew EVERYTHING about driving cause you know, he had his license the longest and he did the most driving, etc, etc, etc.

SO, here I am driving along and we start to lose speed which tells me we're on a mountain but we just can't tell cause they are all windy and can appear to be flat road when you're driving. Shawn and I both notice this but I just keep driving along thinking it'll get better. Shawn starts vocalizing his irritation with me that I wasn't pushing the peddle down far enough to which I started laughing and told him I was but he didn't seem to believe me. I mean, really, out of all the things to lie about....why that?! lol. Then, he decides that I need to switch into a lower gear...so I do (in the event of humouring him) and as I'm doing this I'm trying to explain to him that I think it's just because we're on a mountain. But is he satisfied with this response....ooooooohhhhh nnnnooooooo because that would mean I was right and he was....heaven forbid, WRONG! Now, his suggestion of switching to a lower gear doesn't work which means Shawn is beyond pissed at this point and I'm frustrated but finding it kind of amusing. So what does someone usually do when something isn't going their way? THEY.TAKE.CONTROL! Oh yes, Shawn told me to pull over cause he was going to take over driving. At this point, why even argue....I just pulled over, put the car in first gear, put the emergency break on and we both get out of the car. Can you guess what happens next???

That's right, with us being on a mountain (LIKE I HAD TOLD HIM) and our weight not holding down the car, it started rolling backwards. So here we are, two 'fatties' jogging backwards with the car, trying to get back in. It's not like it was going super fast but seriously, color us SHOCKED. I mean, I knew we were on a mountain but I never would have thought this would happen. You know, because the rules of gravity don't apply to us....we are INVINCIBLE! Um, k, not so much.lol. And OH YES, people witnessed this....not many...maybe one or two cars. Either way, enough to cause embarassment.

Now what seems like forever probably was really only three seconds (if that) before Shawn starting yelling for me to get back in the car. I was like 'Heeeellllooooo, if I could get in the car, I WOULD HAVE ALREADY!' I didn't say it but I definitely thought it. Plus, it didn't help that I couldn't stop laughing the entire time because a part of me was thinking this couldn't really be happening and that maybe I was in a dream or something. But someone above must have been on our side cause somehow we both managed to throw our bodies back into the car before it fell victim to going off the road with us in tow. With all this being said and done....it was, ofcourse, harder to get the car going. We ended up going slower than we were to begin with and more exhausted than ever (atleast I was). What did we do to cure this exhaustion, embarassment, and irritation? If I remember correctly, we pumped The Spice Girls...cause were AWESOME like that!

Happy Friday Everyone!!!