It was a Max event, and I realized I was finally getting to meet my business partner, Fred, for the first time! When I saw him, he was a she. Fred was a 70-year-old woman. Anti-climactic. Well, a small group of us were wasting time before a large-group late lunch at an Italian restaurant. The other woman with Fred was too hungry and couldn't wait a couple hours before she ate, so we went to get pizza instead.
Later on, I found myself in some sort of stall (think bathroom stall) except it was very narrow-- my head barely fit in it (no problem fitting the rest of me in though). For some reason I kept sticking my head out to look around, then back in, then out again. As I moved my head, I noticed the stall walls kinda smelled like urine. Pleasant.
Later still, I found myself at my parents' house was some other people. Two others and myself were standing in the driveway and we decided to do some shots. Four to be exact. Different ones too- one was vodka, but that's all I remember. I said, "I don't feel anything yet, but in a little bit I'm REALLY going to be feeling it!" thinking I was going to be slurring and stumbling. I went to my old bedroom and put on winter clothes to play in the snow (that wasn't on the ground a minute ago). I put on tan Carhartt pants first, then my regular snow pants so I would be nice and warm.
I was at Perfect Games in the middle of the day talking to the cashier, who was a girl I know. She asked if I wanted to start doing the register during the day. I thought, well, it would probably be slow and boring, but I could get a lot of reading done, so it didn't sound like a bad idea. Then my friend, Mary Goodrich showed up and said she had a guy friend on e-harmony that I should go out with. I wasn't particularly fond of the idea, but I thought I'd hear her out. So I followed her to her computer, where I thought she was going to show me a picture of him. Instead, my friend Cody showed up to give me a ride home, and I thought he would maybe take me to him, but he wasn't going to.
Next thing I know, I'm in the back seat of the minivan Cody's driving and his friend, Luke is in the front seat. We're heading south out of Waterloo, toward my parents' house. We were following some other crew guys that Cody and Luke had been working with that day. There was a pickup, then a pickup with an 18-wheeler trailer hooked up to it in front of us. Apparently Cody thought they were driving too slow, because he tried to pass the truck/trailer. That driver wasn't very thrilled about the idea of getting passed, so he started swerving. Then Cody started swerving, too, but not because he was losing control. There were big divots on the very edge of the shoulder, so I was getting kinda freaked out that we would swerve off the road and get stuck in one and get thrown off the road. We were crossing the overpass where highway 21 crosses over hwy 20, except it wasn't an overpass, it was a bridge... with water underneath it. It had been flooded recently, so there were still signs of that and the water was still really high. The bridge was undergoing serious construction work, and in real life there would be no possible way of crossing. Cody then said the brake behind his front brake (aka, the rear brake) had gone out. We continued across the bridge in the minivan, driving right through this completely torn up concrete, without a problem. Then we got to a different part of the bridge, where it was as steep as the streets of San Francisco! And the concrete of the road looked like an earthquake had gone through! We got to the top, then a worker helped our van over by pulling us forward with his bare hands (kinda like an adult picks up a toddler).
After that, we got out and walked- there was some kind of congestion in the road. I hopped on Cody's back for a piggyback ride, and we called to Luke to let him know we went around (around as in, OFF the bridge... where the water should be). Since the water was so high at this point, I could reach out and touch the water, and there was mud over the road. Suddenly, for a second, it was like I was being pulled across the bridge instead of riding piggyback. Then I said, "it would either suck or be a really great day to work at McDonald's, Hardee's, Wendy's, etc." Because now instead of "the Waterloo bridge" being out of commission it was like "the Waterloo burger joint" was out of commission!
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