{"id":370,"date":"2010-08-28T22:11:50","date_gmt":"2010-08-29T03:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mrblob9000.com\/?p=370"},"modified":"2010-09-11T02:23:37","modified_gmt":"2010-09-11T07:23:37","slug":"while-on-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.mrblob9000.com\/?p=370","title":{"rendered":"while on the road"},"content":{"rendered":"

I went to visit a buddy of mine who lives near Kansas City for a week. Got back a week ago last Sunday.\u00a0 Had a good time.\u00a0 I stayed at my uncle’s house near St. Louis and it split the trip up nicely.\u00a0 It was funny how different driving in IL and driving in Mo is.\u00a0 IL roads are pretty much straight and sometimes veer slightly but that’s it and there’s no hills at all basically.\u00a0 In Mo the highway is curvy and there’s hills and valleys fairly often.\u00a0 I wasn’t used to having to vary how much I push the peddle to stay going the same speed because I’m used to IL highways.\u00a0 It was real weird how huge the difference was and how odd it felt.\u00a0 I didn’t notice it last time because last time I drove down I drove my mom’s car which has cruise control (mine doesn’t).<\/p>\n

Stuff I saw along the way:\u00a0 <\/p>\n

-I passed a place in the middle of nowhere in Mo with a big sign that said, “Army Surplus” on the first line and\u00a0 “deli & pizza” on the second and it was a gas station as well…\u00a0 That’s a pretty odd combo.<\/p>\n

-I was thinking I should probably eat and then saw that on the signs next to the road that their was an A&W restaurant and I’ve never had a burger from there so figured I’d check it out. I exited with the promise of a&w but had to settle for Hardee’s because for the life of me I couldn’t find the A&W place.\u00a0 It wasn’t closed, because I didn’t see a shut down place either.\u00a0 It was apparently just hiding.\u00a0 Hardee’s was good though and we don’t have those around here either so at least it was something I can’t really get around here anyway.<\/p>\n

-While at the Hardee’s (that was inside a Love’s truck stop and gas station), I was personally called honey (by the chick bringing me my food) and called partner (by a dude in the bathroom that was kinda in the way, “Sorry partner” he said as he moved and explained he thought the lady behind the counter messed up his receipt and he didn’t want to have to explain where gas went that he didn’t actually receive, he was a trucker).\u00a0 The chick behind the counter at Hardee’s got called honey by some guy and one guy called another guy partner as well.\u00a0 The black manager of the Hardee’s was talking to some regulars (apparently truck drivers and bus drivers stop there often on there route) and as he was leaving he goes, “Now ya’ll be good.” as like a goodbye.\u00a0 Hadn’t heard that before.\u00a0 Well, as I was walking to my car outside a different black guy said the same thing to a couple he was chatting with as he was walking away.\u00a0 All different people.\u00a0 Found that kind of amusing but at the same time kinda liked it.\u00a0 Much more friendly atmosphere or something.<\/p>\n

-similarly, I kinda needed gas, not super urgent but was in need of it soonish and I saw a shell station on the side of the highway and an exit that came up soon.\u00a0 Well, I got off the highway and for the life of me couldn’t find it!\u00a0 So I went to get back on the highway and there it was, mocking me.\u00a0 I have no idea how it was hiding so well, it was all lit up and everything.\u00a0 There weren’t any signs to it from the exit, which was also strange.\u00a0 Oh, and on this exit they had European style ’round abouts’ where you go around the circle and exit the circle on the road you want… in Missouri… pretty strange.<\/p>\n

-I saw a billboard of the coolest looking attorney ever… The guy is a personal injury attorney and wears a damn eye patch!!!\u00a0 How rad is that?!\u00a0 Found there webpage: http:\/\/brownlawoffice.com\/ the billboards are just the two bottom dudes with like a blue background.<\/p>\n

-on the back of a dirty semi trailer someone wrote, “Show me your tits!”\u00a0 found that kind of amusing.<\/p>\n

-On the way down to St. Louis while in IL I saw a college age guy with HUGE mutton chops driving an AMC Gremlin.\u00a0 Didn’t get a picture unfortunately but ya, found that to be kinda awesome.\u00a0 Always liked how AMCs look too.\u00a0 Me and like two other people apparently (they’re always listed in ugly car lists).<\/p>\n

-On the way from Kansas City to St. Louis I saw a Dolorean driving down the highway!\u00a0 Got some pictures of that.<\/p>\n

\"Delorean\"<\/a> \"Delorean<\/a> \"Delorean<\/a><\/p>\n

-Apparently Missouri and Kansas think it’s cool to just close entrances from one highway to another.\u00a0 On my way out of my buddies town I was going from 35 to 435 (think that’s right) I couldn’t exit the direction I needed onto 435 and couldn’t exit going the wrong direction either.\u00a0 So I got off the highway and tried going the opposite direction on 35 and I couldn’t exit the direction I needed but could luckily exit the wrong direction onto 435.\u00a0 So then I got off the435 at the next exit and got back on going the direction I needed directly into construction traffic that brought a 4 lane highway down to one lane.\u00a0 No detour, no nothing.\u00a0 You can’t go this way, fuck you, find your own way.\u00a0 Good times.\u00a0 But not as good times as when I was leaving St. Louis.\u00a0 I was driving along and I think two highways were the same road for a little while then split, well, the split I needed was blocked, so I could do nothing but go down the highway I didn’t want.\u00a0 So I exited and it seemed like a decent area but as I was wandering around and quickly started seeing run down buldings and some were boarded up.\u00a0 Well, as I continued to wander the area got worse and worse to the point where there were more boarded up buildings than not.\u00a0 At one point I passed a church that not only had a steel door and bars on the windows but a chainlink fence with barb wire across the top!\u00a0 So ya, it was a real nice part of St. Louis.\u00a0 Anyway, after about 45 minutes I found my way back to the highway I needed and was off.\u00a0 By then I was getting hungry and saw a Little Caesar’s and figured it’s cheap and would be quick… well, it was cheap but it was far from quick.\u00a0 For those of you that don’t know, Little Caesar’s schtick is they already have the pizzas ready and they’re $5.\u00a0 You walk in, pay your money and walk out with a ‘Hot-n-Ready’ pizza… Well, my Hot-n-Ready pizza took them 20 or 30 minutes to give me.\u00a0 According to my GPS how far I had gotten should have taken me 30 mins and ended up taking about two hours!\u00a0 I contemplated going back to my uncle’s but then I’d probably have to randomly wander that awesome part of St. Louis only this time in the dark… So ya, I drove on and got home at 2:30am.<\/p>\n

-The mosquitoes here in IL have been really bad this year.\u00a0 There normally bad but this year it was EXTRA bad, even for here.\u00a0 I was shocked to find that there’s basically no mosquitoes where my buddy lives.\u00a0 None.\u00a0 Didn’t get one bite and we sat out side during the day and at dusk and at night.\u00a0 Not for like hours but it doesn’t take that long to get a bite.\u00a0 Trust me, if there were mosquitoes I’d have known about it, since I’m sweet nectar to mosquitoes.\u00a0 Seriously, people that normally think mosquitoes like them feel sorry for me.\u00a0 Same thing happened when I was eating my Little Caesar’s pizza, I was sitting outside at dusk and no bugs bothered me, let alone mosquitoes.\u00a0 I’m not sure what the difference is, how there could be basically none there and an insane amount here but we need to bottle that shit and bring it up here because these mosquitoes are fucking ridiculous.<\/p>\n

-On the way down I saw a cool looking baja desert-style racer car thing.<\/p>\n

\"Desert<\/a> \"Desert<\/a> \"Desert<\/a><\/p>\n

-There was a farm in southern IL that had a crapload of wind mill power thingers all over the place.\u00a0 They were huge.\u00a0 My phone didn’t take great pics of them but there were way more than it shows in the pics.\u00a0 On the way back it was night and pitch black and each of the poles that hold the blade had three or four bright red lights and all the lights on all the poles blinked at the same time, it was mesmerizing.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> \"Wind<\/a><\/p>\n

– Saw this at a rest stop, note where the floor is in comparison: hand driers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

-Saw this<\/a> at a rest stop too. Are there chicks specifically looking for truckers? You know, that aren’t actual whores I mean.<\/p>\n

-Why are the prices the same for regular and super<\/a>? Also, I’ve never heard of that gas station brand and found it slightly amusing that technically all the words in there name are misspelled.<\/p>\n

-This is handicap friendly BUT NO PARKING HERE! this was on a door 30 feet from the parking area… wtf?<\/p>\n

\"no<\/a> \"no<\/a><\/p>\n

-Had to snap a couple pics while driving towards the arch in St. Louis.<\/p>\n

\"St.<\/a> \"St.<\/a><\/p>\n

Well, that’s longer than I thought it would be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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