Today, Rooster and I returned home from our short road trip to Auburn’s E-Day. Auburn had set aside the day to showcase its vibrant and nationally-ranked engineering program, of which Rooster will be a part of come August.
We took Rooster’s car so he could get practice making the four-hour drive, and what fun we had.
Here are some brief, yet memorable snippets of our trip…the stuff that memories are made of.
…getting stuck in a gas station’s parking lot, and the only way out was through the 18-wheeler truck exit…oops…
…getting walked in on while taking care of “business” in Subway…the look and sound of surprise from the establishment’s female employee who walked in on me was an America’s Funniest Home Videos moment…
…having a political discussion with my boy who will turn 18 in May and will, thus, be able to vote in November’s election…
…saying Adele’s name wrong, to Rooster’s consternation (for the record, according to Google, you pronounce it “uh-dell”)…
…trying to find a place to make a u-turn on a dark highway…
…forgetting my toothbrush, only to hear Rooster say, “Well, you can’t use mine.” No love, I’m telling you…
…the next morning, after getting a toothbrush from the hotel and asking Rooster for the toothpaste, hearing him say, “Well, I didn’t bring it, so I didn’t brush my teeth.” Sometimes, you just can’t win…
…watching America’s Most Wanted with America’s most beloved son (IMHO 😀 )…
…making a three-minute drive into a 20-minute drive, all because we turned right instead of left out of the hotel (it was my fault, of course, according to Rooster)…
…getting asked, by the software engineering professor who gave the presentation to our tour group, “What are YOU majoring in?” Um…yeah…I think he mistook me for a college student. 😀
…upon discussing the above afterward, hearing my beloved son say, “Well, Mama, you do look young. It’s no wonder he asked you that.” 😀
…visiting the Honors College and learning that Rooster had been officially accepted into the Honors program!!
…slurping down a cup of Toomer’s Corner’s famous lemonade…
…exiting Toomer’s Drugs to a downpour…all because I HAD to go to Tiger Rags to use the 20% coupon that was in Rooster’s E-Day bag…
…deciding to kill some time…let the rain pass…while eating lunch at Moes…except that Moes wasn’t going to open for another hour.
…walking to “Tiger Rags” only to discover that I’d mistaken its location for that of Anders. Oops.
…continuing to walk in the downpour…
…watching Rooster fight the wind as he attempted to keep us covered with, in his words, a “crappy” umbrella…
…taking over for Rooster, only to nearly get blown away like Mary Poppins…
…hearing Rooster assure me that he would have tried to grab my legs if I’d actually taken flight (thanks, Honey)…
…watching shuttle after shuttle pass us as we waited to be transported back to our cars…in the driving rain…
…being reminded that it was all my fault that we were standing in the rain…I just HAD to use that coupon…which I never got to use because we ditched our plans to go to the “real” Tiger Rags…
…watching Rooster sleep as I drove the first half of our journey home…I’m going to miss him so much come August…
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