setsuntamew | highlights from our road trip to NYC and back to help a friend move

aka, I made this as a post on tumblr but now I'm gonna make it into a post here...no promises that I improve it or anything because it was a rambling list on tumblr and I'm not sure I'm smart enough to do anything else with it.

So here it is: the highlights of our stupidity~~~

telling our waitress at Waffle House about Trigun because I brought a volume of the manga into the restaurant and she was like oh, I usually just watch anime but is that manga any good?
why the fuck are half the rest stops on the NJ turnpike closed right now????
going to Brooklyn for the Uhaul and forgetting to play Brooklyn Rage despite discussing it multiple times over the past week
trying to find parking in Hell's Kitchen for said Uhaul
giving up and just illegally parking it because fuck it, we aren’t going to be leaving it unattended anyway
sorta planning to caravan because Liz + Pat were in the Uhaul and I was in my car with Chi + her dog, but those plans pretty much immediately fell apart
me bemoaning not having time to go to the Starbucks Reserve Roastery, aka the worst, most pretentious sbux I’ve ever been to, because my keychain from it broke. not five minutes later we drove past it by accident BUT THERE WAS NOWHERE TO PULL OVER and Chi was like “lol oh well” at my suffering.
part two of sbux: a truck pulled out, leaving the perfect space for me to park in and run inside for a new, terrible keychain.
part three of sbux: THEY DON’T SELL FUCKING KEYCHAINS ANYMORE MY LIFE IS A MOCKERY
getting a huge pizza + garlic knots before leaving NYC because 1) IT’S NYC and 2) there’s no good pizza in Baltimore I gotta take what I can get
meeting up at the Alexander Hamilton rest stop - cue Liz singing from Hamilton - to eat said pizza in the parking lot, because it was impossible to find anywhere to park and chill in NYC

-me and Liz being cringe, much to everyone else’s dismay

seriously tho why the fuck are half the NJ turnpike rest stops closed right now
Chi’s dog experiencing grass for the first time (at a NJ turnpike rest stop) and liking it
Chi’s dog experiencing being in a car for the first time and NOT liking it
Liz being apparently too damn efficient at driving and somehow overtaking me despite being in a Uhaul
subjecting Chi to many of my Trigun opinions because she was stuck in a car with me for four hours and I have can’t shut the fuck up disease

-Chi @ me, tho I can’t even remember why now XD

calling each other’s vehicles multiple times throughout the trip to yell about passing each other on the road and/or whatever other dumb thoughts we all had that couldn’t be contained to just one car
SIX FUCKING DOLLARS for vending machine offbrand dippin dots
Chi’s dog experiencing yards for the first time and not wanting to leave the yard to go inside our house
Ethyl being the peace bringer and somehow calming down Chi’s dog and Lumos and helping them meet

And now I have to figure out how I want to format that quotes but I'm also tired of looking at this entry XD I have a bunch of pictures to share once I go through them, too. I brought my fancy camera and only had so much time to use it, but ohhhh well. I'm still sleepy, okay, it was a long day.