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Watching the wife having a flashback as she cranks up her very own hot rod..................PRICELESS! By the way, I'm getting a custom license plate for it that will say: 30YR W8
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| Tom, I am really glad you came out OK on this one, and good choice on the Stang! Now listen, we have to get down with some serious business. You created this mass hysteria with the "Motivational Posters." Please tell me you are still gonna be here giving us more great works!  In all seriousness, like varyder said, it is great that you haven't lost your spirit for riding and are doing well. Stay in touch. | |||
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| OK, for lack of a better place to post this, here's how The Reveal went down.... The Cast: Wally - the coolest brother ever Blair - C210 pilot Tim - Co-Driver Hannah - Daughter/accomplice Jessica - Daughter/teacher in Nairobi, Kenya Amanda - The "mark" The reveal location - Huey's Once my brother convinced me that this would be a once-in-a-lifetime deal, we had to figure out how to make it happen. He lives in Houston, I live in Memphis, 500 miles apart. We decided to meet halfway in Texarkana for the car swap. It would be a 5 hour drive for each of us and would kill a whole day plus two extra cars/drivers (in chase cars) making it happen. Later that week, I was having my Wednesday lunch with the boys at Hueys and told them about what I was about to do with the Vision insurance money. One of the guys, Blair, is a FedEx pilot and co-owns a Cessna 210. After hearing the plan, he said "I can fly you down there in the 210 early in the morning and you could be home by suppertime." I didn't know how much a 210 cost to fly per hour so I just threw out a guess. "I don't have $1,500 for something like that." He said "Dude, I can get you there in 2.5 hours and it costs $100/hour in fuel. $500 for the round trip." I perked up. "500 bucks!? Shoot, I'm saving so much on this car, OK, I can do that." Tim chimed in; "Hey, I'll go with you guys and help drive the Mustang back." All of a sudden, this had taken on a whole new dimension. Along with being the coolest brother ever, Wally is also an NDT specialist. (Short version - he X-Rays corporate jets.) Here's the story we came up with: Blairs partner in the 210 had a hard landing and they needed to get it checked. It was going to cost around $2000 if done locally. Blair called Wally and asked if he could check it for them if they flew it to Houston. Wally said "Sure. Just get it here and I'll check it out for free. Just cost you gas money." I told Amanda that I was going with Blair to visit with Wally while the airplane was getting checked out. Tim was tagging along just to have fun and kill a day with the boys. We should be back by supppertime if there is nothing wrong with the airplane but if it needs a fix, we'll have to rent a car and drive home. Might be an overnighter. This was all going to happen on my days off (Tues/Wed) and there was nothing pressing at home. Amanda said "Sounds fun. Have a nice time." (It never occurred to her that we were flying a plane with potentially cracked landing gear.) The weather was really crappy the entire week leading up to Tuesday but the front moved through and it was clear as a bell Tuesday morning but we got off a little later than planned due to logistics issues. We landed in Houston around 1:00 and were greeted by Wally's new wife (he had to work all day and I never did see him) and were taken home for a great lunch. We visited for about an hour (the sister-n-law was soooo excited for Amanda) and I traded a personal check for the keys and title to the GT. Tim, Blair and I squeezed in, fired it up and started giggling like schoolgirls. This car sounds one step below a NASCAR when you light it off. It has nothing in common with your typical chick car V6 Mustang. It looks nasty, sounds nasty and literally spits testosterone. We dropped Blair off at the airport for his flight back. As I shook his hand and thanked him for the ride down I pulled out my wallet and handed him five hundred dollar bills for the gas money. He held his hands up and said "Nope, this is on my dime. I want you to sent that money to Jess." I stood there with a trout look on my face...... "What?" "I want you to send that money to Jess. This was a total blast for me. Glad to do it. Can't wait to see Amanda's face when you give it to her tomorrow." Of course, the handshake turned into a hug and Tim and I got into the GT a little misty-eyed. I have the best frickin friends on the planet. Since it was now mid-afternoon, it was looking like we were going to stop for the night somewhere in Arkansas. I called Amanda. "Hey, looks like the airplane has a bad switch on the landing gear indicator but the local mechanic says he can't get to it until morning. Blair is going to stay with the airplane but Tim and I are renting a car because he has a meeting he has to be at by noon tomorrow. We'll try to drive straight on through but might have to overnight it somewhere." She said "OK, see you when you get here." I checked in periodically and she eventually asked "What kind of rental car did you get?" "A silver Nissan Sentra, cheapest one I could find. $29 a day." She jokingly said "Oooo, sounds nice." "Well, you do what you gotta do." After I hung up, Tim and I high-fived. This is gonna be so awesome!! You have to understand that when my family travels, we hammer down until we get where we are going. I called home at about 9:00(speakerphone). "Hey, looks like we're gonna be stopping in Little Rock for the night. We'll get there around 11:00." She responded "You guys can't drive an extra two and a half hours to get home!?" I said "Tim is hitting the wall and he's been driving the whole time." "Well tell him to sleep in the car while you drive the rest of the way!" "He can't sleep in a car. He has to drive or he gets sick. We have to stop." "SHEESH!! Unbelievable. Whatever. See you tomorrow." click... I looked at Tim. "Dude, you are soooo dead." High-five. We really were getting tired and stayed in Little Rock for the night. I knew that Amanda couldn't believe I would get that close and not find a way to get home but when 2:00 in the morning came and went and I wasn't home, reality set in. We got up at 6:30 and the plan was to do the reveal at Hueys during our weekly lunch with the boys. We were way ahead of schedule. We had breakfast and hit the road at 7:30. At 9:00 I called home. "Hey, Tim just got up and we should get back between noon and one. We'll probably just head on over to Hueys for lunch with the boys and come home from there." "Tim just got up!!?" "Yeah, well, you know.....he had a long day yesterday. He's not used to long distance traveling with early get-ups." Long pause..."Unbelievable. See you if you ever get here." click... "Dude. She's gonna owe you the biggest apology in history!" High-five. An hour later we were back in town. I called Hannah and asked her where mom was. She said she was on the computer downstairs. I said "OK, here's the deal, we're home. We're driving past the house right now (I gunned the engine) and we're going to Tim's house to detail the car and get it ready. You tell mom that I called you and need you to follow me out to the rental car place after lunch. Tell her I want you to meet me at lunch with the boys and follow me out from there. You don't want to be the only girl there so you have to guilt mom into coming along with you. She's pretty mad at me and Tim right now so she probably won't want to do it. Do what you have to do to get her there." Hannah - "I just heard you go by!! Don't worry, she'll be there." "Perfect! See you there!" "I can't wait!!!" Tim and I spent about an hour detailing the car and then we filled it up with gas and I drove him over to his noon meeting that was about a block away from Hueys. (That part was not a lie.) Lunch is at 1:00. While he was in his meeting, I drove to the local Ford dealer that happened to literally be across the street from Hueys. I got out of the Mustang and of course a salesman was already making a beeline for me. I introduced myself and filled him in on the reveal. I needed a big bow and wondered if they had one I could borrow for about an hour. He said "Let me check." Two minutes later he walked out with a huge green bow with a magnet on it. I said "Perfect! Give me your card in case I need another car later. We'll be right across the street in that parking lot. It will go down in about an hour." I put the bow in the trunk and went back to pick up Tim. We got to Hueys at 12:45. I called Hannah. "Are we on?" She said "Oh yeah. I totally guilted her into it." "Perfect!! I just went to the Ford dealership and borrowed a giant bow to put on the car. Think of a way to sneak back out of the restaurant while mom is in there and put the bow on the car. I'll leave the keys in it. The bow is in the trunk." "No problem. I'll conveniently forget my purse as we are getting seated." "Perfect."  Hannah, Amanda, Hope (Hannah's twin sister), Jackie (one of the boys) There were 10 of us there and everybody knew about the car except Amanda. At 1:55, I stood up and looked at Hannah. "Well, you ready to follow me out to the rental car place?" "Sure." We all filed out the out the door and walked out into the parking lot. Phone cameras were rolling. Amanda was right next to me as we walked towards the Mustang. She was in her own little world and looked up. "Hey, check out that car with a bow on it." I said "Huh, funny you should mention that. Here's the keys to your new car. There is no Sentra." She stopped dead in her tracks. "Whaaat!?" "I brought it back from Wally's." "WHAAAAT!? The WALLY Mustang!? Oh my GOSH!!!!!" Tim piped up "Still hate me?" Of course you can imagine what the next 15 minutes was like. The waitress even came out to see what the hubub was all about. I looked across the street and every salesman from the Ford dealership was outside watching. Amanda later told me that she thought she was going to pass out. Her ears were roaring and her heart was racing. She was shaking so hard she could barely get the key in the ignition to fire it up. This is what's known as a perfect day. Life's good.  | |||
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