I am soooo blogging this trip!

Yesterday was day one of the great NYC adventure – just me and The Hubster.  We left our city and made good time up the coast, and only made two wrong turns.  That in and of itself is amazing for a road trip for us. 

We stopped at the rest area on the NJ turnpike.  For those of you unfamiliar with this area, the turnpike has several rest areas, and they contain chain fast food places.  Burger King, Cinnabon, Carvel ice cream and the like.  We stopped to buy breath mints and water and I was overcome by the scent of Cinnabons and coffee.  Literally, I almost passed out from the smell.  I HAD to have one.  While I was deciding – caramel pecan bun or regular cinnamon – The Hubster went to look at Burger King.  Since all he had to eat that day was an egg and cheese bagel, a package of deep fried chicken strips, a mozzarella cheese stick from my four pack, a large bag of potato chips, a super caffeinated soda and half of my Coke, the man was, understandably, hungry.  He decided that $5 was not too much to pay for a burger and came to the condiment table, where I was busy doctoring my coffee.  “Hey, I’m gonna get a whopper – want one?” “Um, no.  Haven’t you had enough to eat?”  I shook my head and, as he walked away, I looked at the Hispanic woman reloading the sugar and the plastic ware.  I said to her, “All he’s done today is eat junk.  She shook her head at me. “No habla englais.”  “Oh!”  I called The Hubster over to me and told him, “Tell her what I just said.”  He dutifully translated, shook his head at me, and walked away.  She turned to me and asked “He Spanish?”  I pointed at him, held up one finger and said “His #1” – pointed at my wedding ring, and said “Dominican”.  Meaning that his first wife was from the

Dominican Republic

.  She nodded her head, repeated “

Dominica

”, gave me a funny look, and walked away.

When I got to the table, The Hubster asked me what she had said, and I told him what I had said.  He started laughing and said, “Did you notice how quickly she walked away from you?  She probably thought that you meant Dominican, like I was a Dominican PRIEST!  You pointed at the ring, she probably thought you took me away from the priesthood!”  He took me by surprise, so much so that I snorted coffee out my nose.  “Yeah,” I joked. “She was making the horns at me as she walked away.  I was the seductress who took away a good priest!”

It certainly was funny, but I guess you had to be there.

Comments

[Roberta]

Funny about the Priest thing

Michele sent me!

[Elaine]

OMG. That is terribly funny. And we always knew you were a bad infulence, but GIRL! Stealing away a man of the cloth... tisk tisk. ;)

[Fiona]

I know of a situation in real life in which this actually happened!

Enjoy your trip!

[Stephanie C.]

It was funny to me, too. Sounds like you're having a great time.

[Denise]

The Cinabon bug hits me too whenever we hit that section of the pike!! You just can't resist em!!

[Anne]

so funny. Ohhhhhh that cinnabon place should be banned from cooking lol,

[Lisa C]

Who did you sucker into watching the kids? My oldest had her heart set on the Catholic high school, but now that she knows some kids going to the public high school, she's pretty much resigned. Its hard enough coming up with 8K for the three boys' tuition next year, where in the heck would we get another 9K?