Monday, March 15, 2010

The Chocolate Shake Incident

In October of 2008, the karaoke clan took a trip to Florida. This trip included E and his wife KC, M and his wife N, the newlyweds K & L, my husband D and myself. 8 friends ready to party it up with a few drinks, a pool and some sunshine.
We started our trip by meeting at K and L's place because it was furthest south. We had agreed to meet there at 5am and then hit the road. We all show up at their place, ready to go with full tanks of gas, coffee in hand and breakfast - doughnuts compliments of E and KC. We're all ready to hit the road...with the exception of L. She can't drink the coffee that she brewed for everyone else. She can only drink cappuccinos from the gas station. So before we even hit the road, we've been delayed by the High Priestess L. We climb into our respective vehicles, stop at the gas station, L gets her cappuccino and we hit the freeway.
L proceeds to spend most of the next 13 hours sleeping in the van.
We arrive just south of Atlanta and find a hotel. We get checked in and go out in search of food because most of us are famished. Not L. She is in a grumpy mood because we woke her up. She finds something wrong with almost every restaurant we want to go to. (That place is too expensive – spicy – gross and/or I don't like it) We finally get her stamp of approval for Applebees, but there are issues when they bring her the wrong sandwich (Why, of all people, did they have to screw up HER order?!?) and it ends up being an all around fiasco.
Cut to the next day. We're all up and ready to get going by 8am. L has been up all night (because she slept all damn day yesterday!)and is now starting to get grouchy because she is tired. I thank my lucky stars that I'm not riding with her and we hit the road. She falls asleep almost as soon as we hit the freeway.
Around 1:30, I radio to the other cars that I am getting hungry and need lunch. K, E, KC, M, N and D all agree that they are getting hungry too, so we pull off in Gainsville and go to a Burger King.
High Priestess L is just waking up as the rest of us are getting out of the cars. She is pissed that we are stopping for lunch now because she is “not hungry yet” because she just woke up. I tell her that's too bad, that the 7 of us are hungry and are getting food.
She decides to bring her bad attitude in with her and proceeds to order a chocolate shake for lunch. That's it. Nothing else. D and I are already seated at the table eating when K and L come over and sit down. L grabs her shake off the tray and starts to drink it as E, KC, M and N join us. After everyone is seated, L slams her chocolate shake onto the table and storms out of the Burger King. We're all wondering WTF just happened, so K goes out to find out what is wrong with his wife.
K returns a few minutes later and we all ask him immediately what is wrong with her.
His reply?
“She's mad because her chocolate shake isn't chocolatey enough.”
Seriously?
Your chocolate shake isn't chocolatey enough?
WOW! Just wow.
N decides to take the shake up to the counter to see if they can make it “more chocolatey” for her. N takes L her new shake, and now L says she doesn't want it. How very mature. Even though she doesn't want it, she proceeds to take it into the van with her where it was found days later, completely melted and tipped over in KC's parents new van that has gray interior.
Why, that L, she's just so thoughtful!

On a side note, here is a video my husband did with his xtranormal account to "recreate" what happened. Enjoy - I hope you find it as funny as I do. :)

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