good hearted midwestern man
so, ohio. a boy i met on an island in georgia invited me to come up to ohio with him to visit his family, and i didn't want to stay in the south with hurricane dennis coming, so after spending two days on the road driving from georgia to ohio (when i met the soldiers, and had all my $4 waffle house meals paid for by awesome moms and truckers) i called his sister and surprised him at her house. we spent a week with his family-- his parents, brother, sister in law, their two babies, sister, brother in law, and their three kids-- in in midwestern suburbia doing midwestern suburban stuff.
he taught me how to play frisbee golf, we drove around the ohio countryside, had pool parties and steak cookouts, hung out with babies, played the lottory with his mom, bought him a new car, talked about families and spent nights making jell-o shots with his sister in law while i bonded with his brother over tequilla shots. i had really interesting conversations with his dad, a plastics manufacturing manager, about unemployment and the decline of american industry, and with his mom about travelling and growing up and families.
he had to leave for georgia on thursday, so we drove side by side for a hundred miles down i-77 until my exit onto i-64, heading west again and back into the south.
he taught me how to play frisbee golf, we drove around the ohio countryside, had pool parties and steak cookouts, hung out with babies, played the lottory with his mom, bought him a new car, talked about families and spent nights making jell-o shots with his sister in law while i bonded with his brother over tequilla shots. i had really interesting conversations with his dad, a plastics manufacturing manager, about unemployment and the decline of american industry, and with his mom about travelling and growing up and families.
he had to leave for georgia on thursday, so we drove side by side for a hundred miles down i-77 until my exit onto i-64, heading west again and back into the south.