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How to Cure (more like, ignore for a brief period) a Coughing Cold:
1) Realize how cool you're dad is when you both sit down to eat breakfast at 1 PM. realize how cool he is again later when he tells you about a hilarious sign he saw and wished he could've bought that said, "Maybe Jesus loves you, but everyone else thinks you're an asshole."
2) Go Topless. that is, put the top down on your dad's convertible sports car and enlist him to take you out for a spin up the mountains to Highlands, NC. (don't worry, he'll have been wishing you'd ask.)
3) Listen to Pink Floyd. dance, sing, play those air guitar riffs.
4) Nod your head as if you've never heard the "Fundamentals of Mountain Driving" speech, even though you're given it every time you drive up that way.
5) Conduct experiments on lift and drag with your arm and hand outside the window.
6) Pass people as often as legally possibly.
7) Wear baggy pants that will have major puffage from the wind blowing into the car that will blow up them. then, pretend you're an astronaut in an astronaut suit in G-force training as you go around corners.
8) Honk and get pissed and call people "idiots" who try to drive in your lane - going the other direction.
9) Make funny faces in the side view mirror.
10) when you arrive in highlands, go to Kilwin's. order a scoop of ice cream in a waffle cone. purchase a bag of caramel covered pecan almond popcorn and jars of hot fudge and caramel.
11) buy hiking sneaker shoes that will save your feet (and perhaps your rear) in preparation of winter. extra warms socks are good accessory to be purchased with them as well. rejoice in the tax freeness.
12) enjoy an iced mocha at Buck's Cafe. learn to play backgammon. pretend like your dad didn't help you on almost all of your moves and fully celebrate your victory.
13) stroll about even after the shops have enclosed and enjoy the perfect cooler and less humid than where i live mountain weather.
14) on the drive home, try going without a cap and letting the wind ruffle (completely mess up) your hair. it feels good.
15) stop at Mountain Rest Trading Post. buy apples and roasted peanuts. stare in wonder and curiousity at the "Moonshine Jelly." be sure to chat it up with the old guys just sitting there and hanging out. they'll tell you something about a chevy and driving really fast back in the day before speed limits, if you can understand what they're saying since they have few teeth. disallow the purchase of boiled peanuts because a) they taste awful and b) they stink.
16) don't be like me and go home. cause then everything else that happens will seem a lot worse in comparison to how much fun the mountain trip was, like when your parents harp on you about how you never do anything that you're told to do no matter how trivial it is and how you always make big messes and you hate it because they're right and you deserve it but you still don't like it and you never know what to say back to them. ::sigh::
1) Realize how cool you're dad is when you both sit down to eat breakfast at 1 PM. realize how cool he is again later when he tells you about a hilarious sign he saw and wished he could've bought that said, "Maybe Jesus loves you, but everyone else thinks you're an asshole."
2) Go Topless. that is, put the top down on your dad's convertible sports car and enlist him to take you out for a spin up the mountains to Highlands, NC. (don't worry, he'll have been wishing you'd ask.)
3) Listen to Pink Floyd. dance, sing, play those air guitar riffs.
4) Nod your head as if you've never heard the "Fundamentals of Mountain Driving" speech, even though you're given it every time you drive up that way.
5) Conduct experiments on lift and drag with your arm and hand outside the window.
6) Pass people as often as legally possibly.
7) Wear baggy pants that will have major puffage from the wind blowing into the car that will blow up them. then, pretend you're an astronaut in an astronaut suit in G-force training as you go around corners.
8) Honk and get pissed and call people "idiots" who try to drive in your lane - going the other direction.
9) Make funny faces in the side view mirror.
10) when you arrive in highlands, go to Kilwin's. order a scoop of ice cream in a waffle cone. purchase a bag of caramel covered pecan almond popcorn and jars of hot fudge and caramel.
11) buy hiking sneaker shoes that will save your feet (and perhaps your rear) in preparation of winter. extra warms socks are good accessory to be purchased with them as well. rejoice in the tax freeness.
12) enjoy an iced mocha at Buck's Cafe. learn to play backgammon. pretend like your dad didn't help you on almost all of your moves and fully celebrate your victory.
13) stroll about even after the shops have enclosed and enjoy the perfect cooler and less humid than where i live mountain weather.
14) on the drive home, try going without a cap and letting the wind ruffle (completely mess up) your hair. it feels good.
15) stop at Mountain Rest Trading Post. buy apples and roasted peanuts. stare in wonder and curiousity at the "Moonshine Jelly." be sure to chat it up with the old guys just sitting there and hanging out. they'll tell you something about a chevy and driving really fast back in the day before speed limits, if you can understand what they're saying since they have few teeth. disallow the purchase of boiled peanuts because a) they taste awful and b) they stink.
16) don't be like me and go home. cause then everything else that happens will seem a lot worse in comparison to how much fun the mountain trip was, like when your parents harp on you about how you never do anything that you're told to do no matter how trivial it is and how you always make big messes and you hate it because they're right and you deserve it but you still don't like it and you never know what to say back to them. ::sigh::