Back in the summer of 2003 we went on a week-long trip with all of Jen's family to Kentucky to see the Corvette museum, Louisville Slugger plant, Churchill Downs, etc. It was about an 8-hour drive from where we were living in Pittsburgh, and we decided to carpool with Jen's sister Joni (the birthday girl this week!) and her boyfriend (now husband) Ron (pictured above).
Joni and Ron like to pick on each other back then and Jen thought 8-hours of bickering back and forth would put her over the edge. I told her not to worry as I would keep one eye on the road and one eye on them. Unfortunately the night before our trip I got wet sand kicked in my eye playing beach volleyball and ended up with an abrasion and infection and only one good eye (which I figured I had better keep on the road).
So we implemented one rule for our trip...It was known as "Rule #1"...NO FIGHTING! It worked out pretty well on the way down. As Ron would try to badger Joni, we would just say "Rule #1" and that would be the end of it. It is kind of like saying to the kids, "I'm going to count to 3...", but hey whatever works.
We made it all the way to Louisville, KY without any major fighting or bickering. We needed to eat dinner and stopped at a local Shoney's (now Joni's favorite restaurant). Our highlights from our 11:00pm pit stop was our waitress with only 3 teeth, the nice long hair in my ranch dressing, and the blood that came pouring out of Ron's chicken when he started to cut it. The favorite part for Joni was the women's restroom in which someone obviously had some issues in there that was never cleaned up. All said and done we got 10% off our bill (yeah, that was worth it!).
Hope you had a great birthday Joni, and hope Ron was able to take you back to your favorite restaurant!
4 comments:
ah, Good 'ol Shoney's!!!! *shudder* How I long for the bloody chicken...
you forgot the breakfast buffet with the rock hard french toast!!! that was my dinner..........
and we were good....at least i didn't say "guess a number between 1 and 1000 and if you get it right you get a kiss!"
haha
good times, good memories! :)
ps - thanks for keeping your eye on the road!
oh that's so gross.... not sure if I would've eaten the food! Love the picture too!
Well, we only ate anything that appeared safe enough that we wouldn't end up in the ER. We really had little choice because there wasn't anything else open that late at night and we were starving that was our dinner, wasn't it? ...why didn't we stop earlier??? Anyway, it's disgusting...I can't even hear the name Shoney's without the vivid memory coming back!
yeah - I feel sick at the name of the restaurant...
and I think we just wanted to get there so we "snacked" in the car until we couldn't take it anymore...and we didn't want fast food so mike could spend more than 5 minutes relaxing from driving....
yeah...very little to choose from with places to eat and food to eat....
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