Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Are we there yet?




I feel for them, really, I do. They're not being 'divas' or 'brats'. They're feelings and reactions are totally justifiable and understandable, you know why? Because I've been dragged on adventures such as this by my mother! So I know exactly how it feels to be ill prepared in terms of footwear AND having absolutely no desire to trek 2 hours in the wilderness just to look at a really big rock

Take this for example: We're in some small town in Southern Ontario (2hrs from Toronto), we were staying in a mom-and-pop hotel because that's all there was in this town. So we go for a Timmy's run (No matter where you go in Canada there's always a Tim Hortons). We get our coffee, timbits, ready to head back to mom and pop to make a bonfire. EXCEPT my brother and myself notice that mum is taking a detour, we give each other that look, that look that says 'oh fuck, now what?'. Immediately I'm like 'MOTHER WHERE ARE YOU TAKING US', and in classic, my mum, fashion she just waves me off and says we're only taking a short 'detour'.

ORLY?

Finally we stop behind this hydro facility, that situated on the edge of a forest. She tells us she wants to show us something. (OMG if this was anyone other than my mother I'd get the fuck out, it sounds like we are going to be murdered). She leads us into this forest and I'm protesting because I'm in friggin $9 filp flops from old navy, I can't go trekking through the forest, I'll break my ankles! My mother ignores me and continues on, my brother follows whilst complaining and me not wanting to be left alone in a forest, on the edge of a town that I don't know, I follow too.

So I had to go up hill, down hill, over rocks, over roots, over fallen trees in my filp flops just so my mother could show us a waterfall...a very unimpressive waterfall. All that suffering, all that risk, all that time my coffee getting cold for a polluted, unimpressive waterfall. Like Cheryl says, 'who cares'.

No I am not being an asshole because my mother is notorious for taking us on such adventures and not telling us. I wouldn't have minded the hike, if we were told in advance, so I could have worn proper footware and bought our Timmys AFTER the hike.

But back to the video!

I love how Cheryl is not having any of it: 'its just buildings', I feel your pain. And when the cab driver says he'll take all of them Nicola's like 'does he think that people's going to get in the boot' and then later when Nadine sticks her head out the window, Nicola's like 'what if your head gets chopped off' and Nadines like 'yea imagine if I came in I was just a neck' OMG I died!

I love these girls!

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