Preparations are underway for a trip to visit The Pony next week. You know what that means. Val trapped in a sweaving A-Cad with licensed chauffeur Hick for a 9-hour drive to Norman, Oklahoma. And back.
"I'll need to get a couple of books to read on the drive."
"You DO NOT travel well! If you'd just get in and shut up and ride..."
"Then YOU keep it between the center-line wake-up bumps and the shoulder-line wake-up bumps, so I won't know you're sweaving!"
I swear, Hick and I argue like an old married couple. Oh, wait...
As we were planning which days to go, I got a timely offer in the mail. TWO FREE NIGHTS at the Riverwind Casino hotel that is five minutes from The Pony's turnoff. I've never had a hotel offer from there before, since we are not in that casino on a regular basis. Hick is the one who suggested we stay there. "It'll save us several hundred dollars." Don't say it!!! The irony was not lost on me.
Anyhoo, I looked up that hotel online, and was disappointed to see that they had SOLD over all the dates in August except for two. Crap! I figured it wouldn't hurt to call and be officially denied. I waited five minutes while representatives were busy with other customers, hoping that it was a toll-free number on my offer card.
The gal who finally picked up was extremely congenial, and gave me my two-night room on my requested dates. She said they have very few rooms available for the general public, because they save them for the people with offers. Meaning their gamblers who will make them a profit in return for a place to sleep.
Anyhoo...I'll be heating up the kitchen, making The Pony's requested Chex Mix and Oreo Cake. I don't begrudge him his treats. According to Hick, the treats travel better than I do.
My wife doesn't like the way I drive, claims I'm a head bobber, which I probably am due to the Tourettes, the solution? She drives.
ReplyDeleteIF ONLY all I had to worry about was head-bobbing! As long as Hick can keep the vehicle between the lines and stay off the wake-up bumps, he can bob his head like those SNL Roxbury guys.
DeleteIt will be like a mini holiday! a trip, a hotel, a casino AND The Pony. Now if only Hick stays on the straight-and-narrow section of the road, you'll have a perfect time.
ReplyDeleteYes, I always look forward to the trip. Even the 9-hour drive, seeing the sights (such as they are in FLAT Oklahoma). The anticipation of a mini-vacation to break up my daily monotony is almost as good as the trip itself.
DeleteI don't even mind the hours it takes to prepare The Pony's Chex Mix and Oreo Cake. The sad part is the morning we leave to start home.
Maybe there will be pennies on the floor of the hotel!!
ReplyDeleteI hope so! I haven't found any yet this week, so I may be due for a lot of them next week. Last time, I found one on the casino floor there, and also one laying on a slot machine.
DeleteI forgot to tell you: In the Magic Castle (a magician's club in Hollywood) there was a silver dollar EMBEDDED in the ladies’ room floor which looked as if it had recently been dropped. I don’t know how many people tried to pick it up--but I was one of them.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure I would have tried to get it!
DeleteYou're probably ripe for the dollar on a fishing line next.
DeleteI'd have fallen for that too.
A DOLLAR??? What kind of penny-ante scam are you running up there in the land of dirty-water cocktails?
DeleteOut here, they tie a whole PURSE onto fishing line, and toss it out into the road at night. I learned not to fall for THAT when I was knee-high to a grasshopper. We saw such a purse on the way to Dairy Queen one night, and my dad told us all about it.