The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night
A funny thing happened on the way to MA Sheep & Wool.
NOTHING.
No overturned tractor-trailers.
No highways drowned in battery acid.
And NO FREE-RANGE FERAL MATTRESSES.
Just a little ordinary run-of-the-mill holiday weekend traffic. The just-barely-under-four-hour trip…? took me just barely over four hours.
Mind you, I took a completely different route, one I’ve never taken before, one that didn’t go anywhere near the so-called putative nonexistent fantastical illusory legendary Connecticut Turnpike. And I am NOT going to tell you what it was.
Just in case any rogue mattresses happen to be reading this.
You can’t be too careful.
May 28th, 2010 at 9:53 pm
Great. Now we’re going to get earthquakes in Tokyo and rampant mutant lizards in California. Dogs and cats living together–mass hysteria!
May 28th, 2010 at 10:18 pm
This story is to fantastical to be believed. Really. NOTHING bad happening. Not even ONE rogue mattress? Not even a THROW pillow?
Hmph.
May 29th, 2010 at 6:12 am
will see you soon at Mass sheep and wool
May 29th, 2010 at 6:40 am
I hate to tell you this, but you haven’t actually REACHED the fairgrounds yet.
There’s still time for mayhem.
May 29th, 2010 at 6:42 am
Think of the squadrons of duvets, the piles of mattresses (interior sprung AND Tempur); the pillows and dog blankets all lined up on the Connecticut Turnpike waiting for you. Shivering in the cold, yet alert and poised to hurl themselves beneath your car. Have you no heart? No sense of duty?
May 29th, 2010 at 12:30 pm
Yay! Have fun, and may all mattresses you encounter be resting quietly in hotel rooms.
May 30th, 2010 at 6:31 pm
And it was lovely to see you after you got there.
June 1st, 2010 at 8:19 am
Heheh! I forgot to ask you if there were any shenanigans on the way there, so glad to hear that it was a safe and stressfree journey.
June 1st, 2010 at 10:08 am
Wow, NOTHING???? hmmmmm…….maybe the Gods have decided you have passed all you tests???