Written by Here’s Rob McRay’s understory from October 2017’s “Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time.”
Tonight, we had very good ideas.
We went on a church retreat where we engaged in eye-language and observed flies in the disco ball, while bug-eyed from the grass-green banana bread.
We rebounded to an overly-dependent rich-kid musician, who saw our color. And we spent evenings with loud volume, until he fulfilled his dream…and we moved on to find our own.
In Louisiana we enjoyed a swamp tour and ate at a genuine crawfish joint, where a personal crawfish tutor failed to warn us of the danger of a Cajun-contaminated crotch!
Our friend got creative with scissors, and then persuaded us that a pillow would fix everything—but the angels were busy, and neither glue nor pencils could hide it from Mom.
We attempted to spend the night in a Bath-and-Body-Works factory, where we sought weapons of opportunity to defend against maniacal Milo—the Spawn of Satan!
In high school we wrote about teetering the wire of indecency and tried to persuade our friends of the greatness of a song about being pooped on. Despite our different tastes, we grew up and grew together.
We worked the wedding reception in cool clothes from the craft store, where tossing table cloths led to confessions about crashing chandeliers.
We made a sleepy road trip to Hueytown and back, where we watched the sun rise over the golden gopher and had a shocking encounter with a Talladega pit crew.
We rented a room with Red, who like to talk and talk about cartels and construction. And after secret clicking codes and White House correspondence, we escaped—only to have to break back in.
Well, they all seemed like good ideas at the time!
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