Just took my Princess on her first trip to Dublin. My Princess is my car by the way. She's a Toyota Starlet and I swear she lives! She's like my very own Herbie, I talk to her regularly, I apologise to her for the CRAPPY roads she has to drive over every day and I compliment her when she gets me somewhere safe. She's been in my family for a very long time so there's a lot of sentimentality attached to her but she's also one of the greatest cars in the world, I swear she'll outlive us all.
Anywho off we took to Dublin Monday after work and then drove back last night, leaving Dublin at 11pm. Here's some things I learned on my road trip:
1.Always go pee when you make a stop, even if you don't need to then, you will about 4 minutes down the road and there will be no more places to stop.
2.Diet Coke is not a good drink on road trips, see point 1.
3. Seeing a sign for a place called "Kill" results in much amusement and a little terror imagining a to
wn with lots of "Tom's" sitting on walls in "I shot J.R T-shirts".
4. The night-time toll man is a little creepy- going both ways.
5. There really are no good stations to tune into after you lose RedFM, seriously.
6. The only show worth a listen was "Larry Gogan's Golden Hour" which is now re-using the old skool jingles..."Oldies will remember..." "Larry plays your Golden memories...."
7. David Gray's Babylon is now considered a "Golden Oldie", bet he's pleased with that.
8. Slight panic when I wonder, am I now considered such a thing.
9. Not enough people seem to know how to dim their headlights.
10. Or say thank you if you pull in for them cause their obnoxiously driving on top of you in their "look at me" jeeps they can't drive properly. Do you really have 10 kids to fit in there?
11. I need to get me a CD player for the car, tape player has started eating tapes.
12. The new bypass is great but seems to have forgotten to bring the institution that is "Josephine's" with it.
13. It's inevitable I will at some point start singing "Everybody's Talking" from Midnight Cowboy.
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. I will remember what an unbelievable movie it is & remind myself to watch "Midnight Cowboy" again soon, then forget when i'm looking for something to watch at the weekend.
15. Talking to yourself in the car is far more entertaining in different accents.
16. The imaginary interview with Jonathan Ross goes great.
17. I'm always the guest.
18. Passing out a lorry never gets less scary.
19. For some reason I insist on making eek sounds aloud until I have passed said lorry.
20. The last 40km's is the longest part of the whole journey!!
