After many trips to Portland Maine and back, I really wasn’t looking forward to driving home tonight, in a snowstorm.
My car was well equipped with the Apocalypse Kit, which means all kinds of stuff that would be helpful if I got stuck. In Siberia.
I am most fond of the food part of the kit and tonight I decided to eat the food all the way home. It’s normally a two hour drive, it looked like it would take at least an extra hour this time.
I started with the store brand mozzarella cheese stick, one of my favorite snacks. It was good. Next, I dug into the crackers. This box of crackers has three different varieties and I think I ate some sort of sesame seed crackers. Probably about twenty-five of them.
I had about a quart of cold water, too, which I enjoyed.
After getting through the tolls and across the Portsmouth bridge, I was pretty bored. I’d been very careful and fortunate, the car was still intact and on the road.
Passing into Massachusetts, I joined a cluster of cars following a road crew that was flashing down the road, scraping and sanding and going twenty five miles an hour.
Did I mention I was bored?
It was then I remembered the clementine which was rolling around on the passenger seat. Clementines are supposed to be easy to peel, right? So, as I was driving, I broke one of my sacred safety rules, I peeled the clementine and ate it, carefully. I must have eaten all the seeds, too, but I’m not sure. It was a REALLY GOOD clementine, sweet and juicy.
Now, I was bored, but very happy about the clementine.
The kit also included a bag of deluxe mixed nuts, so I ate a few of them and finished off the water.
Once the water is gone, I was really done eating, and … still bored.
I read somewhere that oranges can be very fragrant. I spent the rest of the ride roasting the clementine peels on the defroster and the car smelled lovely. When I pulled into the driveway, I gathered them up and tossed them out the window, before they caught fire.
Although I picked up all the litter from the trip, the car still looks like it was driven by messy rodent.
Bummer.