Traveling Again

I missed traveling. For some reason, outlandish crap always happens to you, but it never gets to you. In other times when you are living in one place, you get irked and irritating by the most trivial things. While traveling, odd things that actually should annoy just don't seem to.

For example, I was on the road last week, driving through Mississippi after leaving Alabama at 4 AM. I needed some coffee so I punched that into my gps: It told me there was a starbucks 2 miles off the highway in Jackson or the next coffee shop was 85 miles down the highway west. Needless to say, I chose to get off the highway at Jackson. 2 miles down the road, what do I find? The Jackson, Mississippi airport! The starbucks my gps found was inside the International Airport of Mississippi. So I decide to go anyway, I park in the lot (paying $2.00 for parking less than an hour) and get out to start walking.

I forget to put my fleece on because it was almost 60 in Birmingham the previous day. Apparently, temperature fluctuates daily in the south. I froze my ass off on the way to the terminal. I neglected to turn around and get a sweater from my car figuring that the terminal is a quick walk from the parking lot. It turns out to be a 5-10 minute walk. I finally reach the Starbucks in the terminal and choose to get 2 coffees seeing as how Mississippi apparently doesn't drink coffee.

The Starbucks turned out to not have any cup sleeves to protect my hands from the scalding hot coffee contained therein. I picked up napkins to help prevent the heat from penetrating my palms, but the heat burned through that in 5 seconds flat. So I walk back to my car with the odd combination of burning hands and freezing body.

The best part of this entire story is that i wasn't even annoyed, I was laughing like a jackass the entire way back to my car and a good 5 miles further down the road. That is, laughing in between rapping to The Sugarhill Gang. I took the long drive as an opportunity to learn the words to Rapper's Delight! It's like a can of beer that's sweeter than honey.