We took the alternate route back to the highway when we left the casino on Tuesday. It's two-lane undivided curving road, with stoplights, lined with businesses. There had been a snowstorm while The Pony and I were inside, when Farmer H left the casino to make his pawn shop stops. Farmer H said it had been slick at the height of the storm, and he had slid around in A-Cad.
"You were going too fast for conditions."
"No. I just slid when I hit the brakes."
"Exactly. Good thing you didn't wreck. How would The Pony and I get home?"
"I drive good in the snow."
"No you don't! Just because you say it's so doesn't make it so. I was so scared on the way down here that I had to close my eyes."
"That's YOUR problem."
"Look out! You are SO close to this trailer-truck! So close that if the Queen was in it, I could reach out and high-five her!"
"Hey! Look! It's somebody's house."
"It's somebody's HALF a house!"
"It's a manufactured home."
"Great. We'll never get around it. Look how wide it is."
"We won't have to. We've got the light."
Well. We DID have the light, and got our turn before that Half-House. Unfortunately, up ahead of us was the other half!
"Oh, great. Now we're trapped."
The Pony popped off with his droll humor. "You could LITERALLY say that we're between houses right now."
Well done.
4 comments:
Gotta love The Pony :)
River,
Yes. It's an unwritten requirement.
The Pony is good with that dry humor. I gave my nephew a book for Christmas one year that was written by my neighbor. It was a well known fact that my brother-in-law was not a fan of reading. His favorite channel was the weather channel and he could wax eloquent for what seemed like hours about encroaching weather systems. I noticed him examining the book I had given his son. "What is your dad doing?" I asked Joey. Didn't skip a beat and dryly uttered "speed reading". Made me think the boy was smart, until he married a hooker and had a child with her before she went to prison for bad checks. It seems that my side of the family is quite colorful ...
Kathy,
Heh, heh! Farmer H has a lot of "colorful" contacts. He probably knows your side of the family!
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