SERENITY NOW!!!!

One of my favorite quotes from a weekend spent with friends, "Oh shit!!! I'm gonna tear this tin can apart." Our friend was telling us about how she was having a little bit of a panic attack when she was on an airplane. Why is it so funny sometimes to hear a story someone is telling about being terrified?

She really had us laughing our asses off when we decided to take a little drive down Long Beach. OH MY GOODNESS!!!! That was some hilarious shit. Ok, twist my arm. I'll spill it. LOL

We had just had a yummy dinner and Lenny wanted to drive down the beach and see the sunset. Okie dokie, we all agreed. Let's go! So, we all piled up in their truck and headed down to the beach. When we get there Sherrie starts barkin' orders to Lenny not to get to close. She's telling him where to drive and we're all laughing and talking. Every once in a while you can hear her nerves in her voice. She didn't want him getting too close to the water. "The tide comes in fast and it could suck us right in. LENNY!!! Don't get too close!!!"

So, in his sensitive and mindful way he steers away from the water. Guess where we went. Yup right into the soft beachy sand. Guess what happened next. Yup, the tires just started spinnin'.

LENNY!!! We're going to die!! Here comes the tide!! Put it in 4 wheel drive and get us out of here!!! If that water gets up to that rock, I am going to FREAK OUT!!! I was thinking, oh, ok. That's when you're going to freak out. Keri, Lenny and I are laughing. Lenny puts it in 4 wheel drive and hits the gas. The whole truck is shakin' like we're having an earthquake. He looks over to us and says, "You feel that?" What Lenny? You mean the whole truck shaking all of our guts down to our asses. Is that what you're asking us if we feel? Yes!! We feel it!!! He smiles his cute little smile and says, "That's four wheels". Yes, indeed. It was four wheels, going nowhere fast. Oh wait, that's not true. We did go about 6 inches forward and about 6 inches backward for about 15 minutes.

The water is creeping closer. Sherrie sinks down into her seat as if she is relinquishing your life to the ocean. We're dead. Lenny and I hop out of the truck and start hand digging trenches out from behind the rear wheels. Keri is laughing her ass off. Sherrie glances back at her like oh my god can you believe this, we're going to get sucked out into the ocean and die. Keri says, don't look at me you are making me laugh. I'm on the passenger side digging out the trench and out of the corner of my eye I notice Sherrie has opened her door and right smack in the middle of her panic is standing on the step up to the truck thingy taking a picture of the sunset. Oh, that's pretty and gets back in the truck.

Some beachy jeep dude stops and says to Lenny, "Hey, you don't have your wheels locked in to 4wheel". He jumps out of his jeep and flips a dial on the front wheels and off we go. Oh my god that was hilarious.

Sherrie posted her sunset picture to Facebook and one of her friends comments, Serenity. There wasn't an ounce of serenity coming from Sherrie that night. It was so funny. I love you Sherrie and Lenny. Thank you, both for a wonderful time.