Man Fidgets

The Chronicles of Kiwi, Part 5

I’ve traveled a fair amount throughout my life and cannot say I’m terribly enamored of it. I travel because other people who love me wish me to see something and share something that has been special to them and might possibly hold sway for me. I’m also helpful with the luggage.

Now I understand those who enjoy travel and I am not ungrateful when I’m asked to tag along. I’m just puzzled by enthused, excited travelers. I am an excited and enthused “stay-er.” Once you “get there” you find yourself rooting about for something interesting or useful to do – just like at home. Except on vacation quite a few of the interesting things cost money and the useful stuff is pretty much reduced to helping with the luggage, which is usually over in a jiffy. All that to say, vacations give me a bad case of the man fidgets. At least when I’m at home there’s a quiet nobility attached to the mundane. I can wash the dishes, tidy up my workshop, keep an eye on the markets, write, work on music – all sorts of useful things. And, I can hop in my truck and go to town when I’ve a fancy.

But here I cannot presume even that small pleasure. I’m not on the rental agreement for the car. Or, as they say here, I’ve not “hired” a car. Funny term. I noticed at a grocery store a sign which read that I could “hire” a Rug Doctor for the day. I could have all sorts of fun with that. Anyway, you don’t “rent” things here. You “hire” them.

My father-in-law has already been driving around like a boss for three weeks prior to our arrival. From the right side steering wheel to driving down the left side of the road, he feels chippy in his confidence. I’m consigned to the navigator seat and prophesying over an old school Garmin GPS which I hold in my lap like a crystal ball.   I shout at my 80 old father-in-law as he drives 80:

STAY LEFT! TAKE THE 2ND EXIT AT THE ROUNDABOUT….
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THE SHEEP HERE ARE LOVELY…AND PLENTIFUL IT SEEMS.   HELLO…CAN YOU HEAR ME??? KEEP TO THE ROAD. YOU DON’T NEED TO BE LOOKING AT THE SHEEP.

HOW ABOUT THEM BRONCOS? AREN’T THEY AWFUL THIS YEAR?

WHAT? HOLD UP THEN – SOMEONE NEEDS TO PEE…

All this I shout because my father-in-law wears hearing aides and our lives are in his hands.

Anyway, I’ll not shout at you. I will simply take this moment to wish you well this Thanksgiving, and, MAY GOD BLESS YOU! 🙂