The Dukes of Pocomoke City
I am on one of my road trips again. My family and I decided to head down to Virginia Beach this weekend to visit my grandparents, whom we didn't get to see on Christmas this year. So my aunt drives down to grab my cousin Michon and her kids, while my mom, my sister and I pack up the my sister's car and we all high tail it down to the VB.
Here's where it gets funny.
One the way, we are going through Delaware, where my aunt, who's driving ahead of us, runs over what looked to us as like a racoon, but upon further discussion and based on the blurry color we saw, it was a fox (possibly). It flew up in the air too fast for us to tell. Either way, it was hysterical, because we kept calling my aunt a "coon killer".
About an hour later, we are driving through Pocomoke City. For those of you who don't know what this is, it's an area in Maryland. I hate driving through Pocomoke City only because there's a stretch of road that goes on for miles that has no lights down the road. It's really just a strip of trees on either side of the road and the lights from whatever cars happen to be on the road with you, which if you're driving late - isn't many. However, since there aren't any cars on the road at this time, my aunt, who is still driving in front of us is doing at least 65-70 mph on the road. I am about 2 car lengths away from her, when suddenly from across the left of us, two state troopers flash their lights and wave us down. I knew why they did. We were doing at least 72 in a 55 mph lane. LOL. What I really wanted to do was fly down the road and start a big chase scene like one from the Dukes of Hazard. Just call me Dre Duke. Unfortuntately, I don't think I would get away to make Boss Hog look like a fool by the end of the episode. At this point, we're all pretty scared shitless, because we didn't want to get a ticket, but my aunt, who thought of this ingenious story to get us off the hook. It apparently worked and we got off with a warning and no ticket. After that we're taking it slower down the road, which take us longer to get there, but hey you gotta do what you gotta do right? I still wish I could have gotten all 2 Gay 2 Furious on those Pocomoke jokes, but I didn't. I didn't want to get my sister in trouble. But like I said, before I hate driving through Pocomoke City.
Needless to say, about 30 minutes after that, a racoon, shoots from the left side of the car, hurdles itself towards the driver's side tire and we bounce in the air due to the impact of the beast rolling under the car. My mother and I are screaming like little women, because we just became what we joked about - we became "coon killers". The beast clearly had a death wish, because most animals run straight across a road to get to the other side, this one ran straight for us. It was astonishing, somehow funny, but insane nonetheless.
We finally arrive to surprise my grandparents at about 2:30am. We set around for a few, discuss, laugh, play with the twins, make a WAWA run and finally we all settle down at about 5:00am. It just hit six and I am in the dinning room, typing this blog, because if I didn't, I don't think I would be able to in the morning. I should be bloody tired right now, but after 2 cups of coffee and a soda. I am pretty wired. I should go to sleep, because I know that when I am home, I can sleep for 7-8 hours. Here I wont be able to. I'll be lucky, if I can't 4 in.
Here's where it gets funny.
One the way, we are going through Delaware, where my aunt, who's driving ahead of us, runs over what looked to us as like a racoon, but upon further discussion and based on the blurry color we saw, it was a fox (possibly). It flew up in the air too fast for us to tell. Either way, it was hysterical, because we kept calling my aunt a "coon killer".
About an hour later, we are driving through Pocomoke City. For those of you who don't know what this is, it's an area in Maryland. I hate driving through Pocomoke City only because there's a stretch of road that goes on for miles that has no lights down the road. It's really just a strip of trees on either side of the road and the lights from whatever cars happen to be on the road with you, which if you're driving late - isn't many. However, since there aren't any cars on the road at this time, my aunt, who is still driving in front of us is doing at least 65-70 mph on the road. I am about 2 car lengths away from her, when suddenly from across the left of us, two state troopers flash their lights and wave us down. I knew why they did. We were doing at least 72 in a 55 mph lane. LOL. What I really wanted to do was fly down the road and start a big chase scene like one from the Dukes of Hazard. Just call me Dre Duke. Unfortuntately, I don't think I would get away to make Boss Hog look like a fool by the end of the episode. At this point, we're all pretty scared shitless, because we didn't want to get a ticket, but my aunt, who thought of this ingenious story to get us off the hook. It apparently worked and we got off with a warning and no ticket. After that we're taking it slower down the road, which take us longer to get there, but hey you gotta do what you gotta do right? I still wish I could have gotten all 2 Gay 2 Furious on those Pocomoke jokes, but I didn't. I didn't want to get my sister in trouble. But like I said, before I hate driving through Pocomoke City.
Needless to say, about 30 minutes after that, a racoon, shoots from the left side of the car, hurdles itself towards the driver's side tire and we bounce in the air due to the impact of the beast rolling under the car. My mother and I are screaming like little women, because we just became what we joked about - we became "coon killers". The beast clearly had a death wish, because most animals run straight across a road to get to the other side, this one ran straight for us. It was astonishing, somehow funny, but insane nonetheless.
We finally arrive to surprise my grandparents at about 2:30am. We set around for a few, discuss, laugh, play with the twins, make a WAWA run and finally we all settle down at about 5:00am. It just hit six and I am in the dinning room, typing this blog, because if I didn't, I don't think I would be able to in the morning. I should be bloody tired right now, but after 2 cups of coffee and a soda. I am pretty wired. I should go to sleep, because I know that when I am home, I can sleep for 7-8 hours. Here I wont be able to. I'll be lucky, if I can't 4 in.
posted by Dre @ 6:10 AM
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