Travels with Relatives

A week of vacation and I have learned some things about family that I could have lived without knowing.

While sister, Pearl, FCC, and yours truly travelled south to visit Auntie Upstream, we- or rather, they- stopped to do a little bit of shopping. I was patiently waiting on a nice comfortable bench with other men in varying states of impatience, when Pearl came up, grabbed me by the arm, and dragged me into The Dress Barn saying, "I need your opinion on something."

Have you heard of the phrase, "like a deer in the headlights?" This was me as my sister held a white jacket in front of her, and asked, "Does this look good?"

As I waited for something other than"ah" to come out of my mouth, a lady standing near by said that she thought the jacket was lovely. To quote that lady in Streetcar named Desire, "I rely on the kindness of strangers."

Later that day, after we had returned to the motel, and flopped on the beds in exhaustion. This resulted in another weird moment.

[This section has been edited at the... gentle direction of FCC.] ...and said, "but feel!"

We were exhausted, and this was just the first day of the trip.

Later, Mushers!