P.O.T.C. On Stranger Rides! The Missing Chapter,,Final Thoughts,, Preview Thoughts.

[smidgy]

amazingly, we have NEVER seen the "kiss good night" at MK.
and I will bet that he has never heard of it... or "claim " that he has never heard of it (even tho I mentioned it to him once or twice)


hey! nebo.. let's do that next time! ..????

 

[mikamah]

Ah, Nebo and Smidgy, I missed a few chapter along the way, but finally got over and caught the end. The last day. Just time to plan the next trip!! Which is when? I'm sorry if you've said already. We got a new dog in december and much of my disboard time has been taken up walking the dog not to mention the speed of the boards when I do have time.

We have no trip this year and am a little sad. We sing "the year without a disney trip", to the tune of the "Year without a Santa Claus" around here, but am crossing fingers the house stays together and we can sneak a trip in early 2013.

Thanks for sharing your disney trips with us, the good and the bad. You have made me smile, laugh, cry, and almost pee my pants at times. Here's to a wonderful 2012 for you and Diane.

 

[pkondz]

If we had ridden Dumbo, I would have been whacking his butt to make him go faster.

Darn. I'm at work so I'll reserve comment for now.

Sir, your comment is ready now.

 

[mmeb144]

Sir, your comment is ready now.

OMG, that was hilarious! Is that a recycled pic of Nebo from this trippie?

 

[pkondz]

OMG, that was hilarious! Is that a recycled pic of Nebo from this trippie?

Thanks!

It's recycled from two TRs. The head is from earlier in this one, the body is from an earlier TR, but he had a hat on in that one.

 

[jcc0621]

Sir, your comment is ready now.

You should hire yourself out. That is AWESOME

 

[Curiouser&curiouser!]

It was with a feeling of acceptance that I went to sleep that night, ok, we get back to routine,,,, and on the way home I will be thinking and planning our next trip!
It's not the end, for a new beginning is right around the corner!

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oh why couldn't the trip have ended that way?

good night

Because you are Nebo. And things don't work out like that for you. That's just how you roll.

 

[Thumper_Man's Wife]

I'm still trying to catch up. I'm hoping i can get through some pages while I'm printing out Prescription Drug Disposal Guide booklets today...We'll see how that goes. I just wanted to take stop for a moment and say thank you to Nebo and Pkondz for the condolences and to say I'm still around, not that my input is crucial mind you, Mr. T has been keeping me apprised of the goings on...but I will continue to catch up nevertheless...

 

[pkondz]

You should hire yourself out. That is AWESOME

Thanks!

 

[Thumper_Man]

amazingly, we have NEVER seen the "kiss good night" at MK.
and I will bet that he has never heard of it... or "claim " that he has never heard of it (even tho I mentioned it to him once or twice)


hey! nebo.. let's do that next time! ..????

You have to see it at least once. You think leaving MK brings a tear to your eye on your last day. Go to MK on your last day and see the Kiss Good Night. You'll be crying your eyes out as you listen to the narrator along with the music.

Only thing about seeing the KGN is that you can't partake in the running of the bulls after Wishes or the parade. Be prepared to wait until the crowds die down from inside the park. The line for the busses may be long. That is it only draw back. Lady H and I usually take our time shopping until some of the crowds die down.

 

[Thumper_Man]

Most people do that, don't they? Oh, sure there are some weirdo's out there that like to do laundry while on vacation, and if it's a long one, then it's a necessity... but otherwise...

we have not done laundry yet, I don't think

Lady H and I are not weirdos.

Oh wait, never mind. I see where you put out of necessity. My bad. We do laundry on vacation, but then again we're usually there for 11-14 days. Since we take the aluminum tube of death and don't drive to Orlando, we try to pack light so we don't have too many bags to check. We only pack enough clothes for a week, so we have no choice but to do laundry. Plus we have free access to washers and dryers at our timeshare. So it's easy for us to do laundry when we get back from the parks.

 

[Thumper_Man]

Sir, your comment is ready now.

NICE!!

 

[nebo]

amazingly, we have NEVER seen the "kiss good night" at MK.
and I will bet that he has never heard of it... or "claim " that he has never heard of it (even tho I mentioned it to him once or twice)


hey! nebo.. let's do that next time! ..????

Hey, we've seen that, haven't we? Right? Um,,,, it's right before Wishes,,, and Tinkerbell's flight, yeah,,, that's it.

Ok, what is it again?

Ah, Nebo and Smidgy, I missed a few chapter along the way, but finally got over and caught the end. The last day. Just time to plan the next trip!! Which is when? I'm sorry if you've said already. We got a new dog in december and much of my disboard time has been taken up walking the dog not to mention the speed of the boards when I do have time.

We have no trip this year and am a little sad. We sing "the year without a disney trip", to the tune of the "Year without a Santa Claus" around here, but am crossing fingers the house stays together and we can sneak a trip in early 2013.

Thanks for sharing your disney trips with us, the good and the bad. You have made me smile, laugh, cry, and almost pee my pants at times. Here's to a wonderful 2012 for you and Diane.

Thank you so much for saying what you did, means a lot to me and I remember you've been reading ever since back in July of ,,,,,wow,, "06,,,, where has the time gone?

Thanks!

It's recycled from two TRs. The head is from earlier in this one, the body is from an earlier TR, but he had a hat on in that one.

WHAT? My head is from,,,, my body is,,, WHAT AM I? AN ACTION FIGURE SOLD SEPARATELY? move over Buzz! Nice Job Ponzi, well done

Because you are Nebo. And things don't work out like that for you. That's just how you roll.

Is it too late to teach an old dog new ways to roll?

I'm still trying to catch up. I'm hoping i can get through some pages while I'm printing out Prescription Drug Disposal Guide booklets today...We'll see how that goes. I just wanted to take stop for a moment and say thank you to Nebo and Pkondz for the condolences and to say I'm still around, not that my input is crucial mind you, Mr. T has been keeping me apprised of the goings on...but I will continue to catch up nevertheless...

Lady H, we are only here for your amusement, don't ever let it feel like it's a chore you have to take care of, we're just glad to have you any time you can show up.

You have to see it at least once. You think leaving MK brings a tear to your eye on your last day. Go to MK on your last day and see the Kiss Good Night. You'll be crying your eyes out as you listen to the narrator along with the music.

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Ok, tell me, what exactly is the KGN,,,,looks like a Russian Syndicate.

Lady H and I are not weirdos.

Oh wait, never mind. I see where you put out of necessity. My bad. We do laundry on vacation, but then again we're usually there for 11-14 days. Since we take the aluminum tube of death and don't drive to Orlando, we try to pack light so we don't have too many bags to check. We only pack enough clothes for a week, so we have no choice but to do laundry. Plus we have free access to washers and dryers at our timeshare. So it's easy for us to do laundry when we get back from the parks.

One of these days wer are going to get you to stay on property.

 

[pkondz]

Lady H and I are not weirdos.

You're not? That's too bad, 'cause I am.

Oh wait, never mind. I see where you put out of necessity. My bad. We do laundry on vacation, but then again we're usually there for 11-14 days. Since we take the aluminum tube of death and don't drive to Orlando, we try to pack light so we don't have too many bags to check. We only pack enough clothes for a week, so we have no choice but to do laundry. Plus we have free access to washers and dryers at our timeshare. So it's easy for us to do laundry when we get back from the parks.

Yeah, see? That makes sense. What I don't get are people who do the laundry while they're on vacation "Because it's Friday and we always do laundry on Friday!" or people who do the laundry on the last day 'cause "We don't want to put dirty clothes in our nice clean luggage!"

 

[Thumper_Man]

Hey, we've seen that, haven't we? Right? Um,,,, it's right before Wishes,,, and Tinkerbell's flight, yeah,,, that's it.

Ok, what is it again?


Ok, tell me, what exactly is the KGN,,,,looks like a Russian Syndicate.

KGN (Kiss Good Night). And no not Killing Gin Nightly or Keep Going Nebo.

Rather hard to explain really. It's not as spectacular as lets say Wishes. It's about a 3 minute show with the castle. At the end of the night when the park is closing, the castle changes colors along with the music and narration. The music is the song "When You Wish Upon A Star." Narrator comes on and hopes you had a wonderful day and invites you to come back soon. Then Mickey tells you goodbye and invites you to come back real soon. Then the song finishes playing and the CM's go through telling you to get the heck out of the park because they want to go home.

J/K. The stores will actually stay open as long as they have people in them spending money. We've been there about an hour after the park closed, shopping in the stores and they still weren't kicking anybody out.

Here's a youtube video so you can see the KGN: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iLlhU5Fkxs&feature=related

One of these days wer are going to get you to stay on property.

Whether I stay on property or off property we'll still need to do laundry. Once I figure out how to get those elusive pin codes for free dining or 25% off, then I'll be glad to stay on-site. In the meantime, my timeshare is paid for so I don't have to spend money to stay anywhere.

 

[Thumper_Man]

Yeah, see? That makes sense. What I don't get are people who do the laundry while they're on vacation "Because it's Friday and we always do laundry on Friday!" or people who do the laundry on the last day 'cause "We don't want to put dirty clothes in our nice clean luggage!"

Yeah, I don't get doing laundry on the last day either. We use space saver bags; after we've done laundry the first half of our trip, the dirty laundry goes back into the space saver bags as we get towards the end of the trip. Our luggage stays nice and clean this way. Quick wipe down of the space saver bags and they're ready for the next trip. We usually take a day off after vacation to get a vacation from the vacation. We also take this extra day to unpack, do laundry and prepare to go back to work.

 

[pkondz]

We also take this extra day to unpack, do laundry and prepare to go back to work.

Go back to what? I thought the DIS was supposed to filter out dirty four letter words?

 

[winkers]

I know that I don't participate much in the back and forth between chapters, but I feel like I know so much more about you now Winkers!

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

Oh I know! It's a family board, it's a family board... I keep saying this over and over.

Oh! The possibilities! So many quips, so few of which I can say.

Must. Restrain. Self.... Whoops! Getting into winkers' territory now.

Wow decapitated!! I've seen and read about some freaky things in my day but that kind of S&M takes it to a whole new level!!

Jay

I'm afraid there isn't a smiley that covers this level of embarassment! I'm not sure how or why the "&" was inserted into SM.

 

[nebo]

I'm afraid there isn't a smiley that covers this level of embarassment! I'm not sure how or why the "&" was inserted into SM.

Hey, you left out my B&D comment.

 

[nebo]

Is this the final chapter?

Probably.

I never know for sure until I'm done typing.


But I know there won't be any pictures this chapter.

Crap.

I am not busting the trip home into two different chapters. Well, I hope I don't have to, we'll see.

Ok, let's get started.



(Sigh)

Remember the Beast?

Doesn't matter if you do or not, he remembers us.

And he's still not done with us!

Wednsday morning arrived and we were playing it by ear for a change,, no set time to leave, we got up, finished packing and then called for the hellbop,,, bellhop,,the guy that takes your stuff down.

They said he'd be up in about 15 minutes, so even though it was a bit too soon, I told Smidgy I'm going to get the car and bring it around front.
I wanted a few minutes I guess to walk through the lobby again, and just look around, which I did.

I couldn't believe how many different display there were to look at, artifacts under glass, pictures, murals, sculptors,
tapestries,,,,I've been here for 6 nights,, why haven't I looked at this stuff before?

I started to mist up, and I was going to go and look at the pool one more time,,, but I knew that would be a bad idea, so I walked through the "Lobby of Darkness" one more time and made it without hurting myself.

The old Santa Fe hadn't been touched in a few days now,, hmm, more than a few, but it started right up. Oh, and how quiet it is,, it sounds just like when we left the house!

Took a good look at the tires, especially the front right one that likes to "hiss", but all seems well there.
I pulled around to the front.


We ended up pulling out around 8 o'clock.

Funny thing, ok, not funny, strange.
For the very first morning out of the 15 we have stayed here, it is completely overcast,,, not a sign of blue anywhere.
A lot of you may look at this as a good omen, being that
we are leaving right before crappy weather is setting in,,,
um,,, no,,, we look at it as "we are leaving just as
crappy weather is setting in."

We've had our fill of that shi,,, stuff, when driving.

The hard part was having to head back into deeper Disney territory to the Hess station to fill up, then we reversed and headed on out using the Western Way route to 429 that takes you to the Florida Turnpike.

Strange thing though on the Western Way bypass, you will be driving for ten minutes,,,, nothing Disney- like will look familiar and finally you get to a road that I believe says
Bear Stearns Road,,and not far after that,,, the huge Disney sign saying "Come Back Soon!"

I guess this is still a part of Disney? Maybe it's just where they placed their sign, it didn't have to be on property, I guess. But it has a bad effect on you, you had already thought you were off property miles ago, and on your way home, but now there's Mickey saying "Come Back Soon!"
It's brutal.

We are rolling along pretty much in silence, but my mind is firing, and not blanks.

Not much at all went right this trip,, and when we get back and it's all straightened out, I'm all for turning right around and heading on back here.
This was the trip that was going to make right the frigid Nov/Dec trip where my back went out when the nasty pool cleaner guy cursed me, and well, that didn't work out that way.

I knew this was probably the last thing she wanted to talk about now, but my brain would not be denied.

I also had a feeling that once we hit the interstate she would give me the, " would you mind if I tried to take a nap?" routine,,,, so I couldn't put it off, my head would explode if we didn't talk at least a little about it.

We considered a trip only 6 weeks from now in November, or maybe if she can't get off of work a February trip at the latest, that was the best I could come up with, and it would have to do, for now.

It wasn't until we got back that we finally found out that our son told his son they were going to Disney around next August, as you have heard.

Well, we never did hit bad weather, might have out run it but being late September, and the late hour that we left the resort,,, we only made it,,,, once again,,,, as far as,,,,,

Murfreesboro again, that night.
We had driven down 13 times before, and Murfreesboro was just something you passed through.
Now we can't stay away from it.

Yep, we pulled right back into the Knight's Inn that we stayed at on the way down. (gee, I think it was the Knight's Inn)

Didn't get the Pakistani guy behind the counter this time, got a girl instead,, and we also didn't have to spend the extra two bucks over the coupon price to get a king bed, she had a room with two doubles.

Staying here almost made things worse for me,,,, "Wait, two weeks ago we were heading south, not north!"

You have to understand, I really, really really want to live in Florida, but,,,,,,,who knows if that will happen.

That night in the room we played Gin Rummy, or maybe it was just Gin, I don't know, but after some early arguments on the rules we got into it,,, and I made an incredible comeback at the end where we each had half the deck of cards spread out in front of us.

What we had for dinner that night I have no clue in the slightest, gee, I hope it wasn't liver sausage again, that stuff should have been thrown out by now!

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Thursday morning

We are up around six, but it's still dark out and I don't want to leave until dawn. Did I ever tell you the true definition of dawn? Never mind, just kidding.

Smidgy puts the weather channel on while we are getting dressed,,,,of course she did, and they are talking about heavy fog in the Nashville area up ahead.

Great, wonderful!
It's barely six o'clock, only been awake for 15 minutes and I almost lost it permanently!
I started laughing and I was afraid I wouldn't be able to stop.

That's something we haven't had to deal with yet this trip,
all that's missing now is locusts!
The biggest problem on the way down was not being able to see, and now, "here we go again?"

I pulled the car around to the lobby and we went in for coffee, tea, and these tasteless little plain donuts in this huge plastic cannister.

And they had a tv on in there tuned to the news, which is also talking about the fog.
Only now it's gotten sinister, lot's of wrecks on highways 24, (ours), and route 65, (considering).

As Diane is starting the hand wringing already, I went and stood outside as it was starting to get light out.

No sign of fog at all here, Nashville is about 35 miles away, how bad could it be? And the sky looks pretty clear,
by the time we get there the sun should burn it off, right?

Sticking my head back inside I loudly said, "Let's go", and we went and go'ed.

She was already nervous, so with the cruise control set I started talking about how I'd like to stay at Coronado next time, we can't be constantly trying to bug our friends to give us points. Talking loosened her up, and then ten miles out of Nashville I literally had to just about slam on the brakes, all traffic ahead had stopped.

From 75 miles per hour to 0 just like that!
We then proceeded to crawl the rest of the way to the Briley Parkway which we always take now around Nashville.

Those 8 miles to get there took us over an hour!

I was going nuts; "Why?" There was just a hint of fog,
my back was already hurting and we AREN"T MOVING,,,,
spittle was forming at the corners of my mouth to add to the crazed look.

When we finally made it to the Briley Parkway, I couldn't believe more people weren't getting off there also.
so to speak

About half way around, the world disappeared.

Then it would re-appear only to disappear again.

The fog seemed to be operated by the moon, just like tides, or waves,,, that's better it kept washing over us like waves, and I say the moon because the fog totally obliterated the sun, the sun just made it "whiter", like going through the clouds in the aluminum tube of death.

Although I can't say I've felt too friggin safe in the "air conditioned coffin on wheels" lately.
But at least I can play my own CD's in my coffin.

We take the Briley Parkway because it's like our own personal highway,,, nobody is ever on it except us, and right now, that's the problem:
I would have given anything for a traffic jam up like on 24 where you can only crawl along, in this fog.

Suddenly, we'd come out of the fog, and we'd both breathe a sigh of relief only to have it wash over us one more time. Then, once again we are back on route 24, the traffic has thinned out greatly,,, and the fog is thinning out too.

We still held our breaths for awhile though.

Ten miles down the road I engage the cruise again at 75, got a lot of time to make up for, but I was happy that was over with, it's back to business as usual.

But more importantly, I wanted to keep the upbeat mood, and I started singing an old song we both use to sing in our partying boating days:

"Oh I'm on the drinking man' diet
it came from a book I was loaned,
It's really terrific and quite scientific
and i'm, half, stoned.

For breakfast some Corn Flakes and vodka
but Corn Flakes have carbohydrates,
so I don't eat those fattening Corn, Flakes
I eat, the vodka straight."

She joined in:
"So drink, drink, everyone drink
it's not as bad as we used to think,
With every manhattan
your stomach will flatten
So drink, drink, drink."
("Drinking Man's Diet", Alan Sherman, if the name sounds familiar, he did "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh")

I was still happy about getting through Nashville dent free, injury free, death free.

"Hey Honey," I said when we were done singing, " We beat him this time quickly and with no damage, the Beast has lost his power over us!"

She just gave a half smile and that was all,
meanwhile, the Beast just laughed, he had already gone ahead to southern Illinois to meet us there later, and he really wants to say howdy one more time.


Ok, sorry, this is a two parter after all, what can I say, happy Marita and Buzz?