Well, that was just one of MANY things I overheard this weekend that I hadn't ever heard before.
There was also "festival feet" (which were the reason I threw the flip-flops I was wearing away when I got home) or "single and double hoppin'"...
I probably could have remembered more had I not drank quite so many $5 beers.
Now where can you get quality slang like that? Let me tell you: I spent Saturday and Sunday with Snakeman at the Heatwave car show in Austin.
I have to say that it's pretty interesting to get out for an entire weekend sans kiddos and be a grown up. It gives me a little glimpse at the life I skipped entirely by becoming a parent at such a young age. I occasionally wonder what life would be like if I just had me to contend with and could pretty much do anything I wanted and short of a few phone calls home to check on my girlies, I had a pretty good view of that kind of life this weekend.
Now, I've never been to a car show before and besides getting to see some pretty awesome cars, I had no idea what I was getting myself into.
Just like I had no idea how effing rad monster trucks are. More so when you are standing twenty feet away from them and they are flinging mud all over the place. (I'm going to have to call Fairy and apologize to her for the whole razzing about the monster truck show she took her kid too a few months ago.)
But the monster truck show and the really awesome stunt bike show (that was too far away for my shitty little camera to have any truly awesome pics of, sorry) were just the icing on the cake that was
Camaros
Caddy's - I've decided that I want one of these, convertible of course :P
The fucking Dodge Dart Convertible with the brand new Hemi in it!
Mustangs
I'm not sure what this one was but can't you just picture some 1940's gangsters or the bad guys from Batman piling out of it?
But the coolest part? Cooler even than the t-shirt that said "That thing that your boyfriend does that your really like? Yeah, I taught him that."
I know, hard to be cooler than that huh?
But seriously, my favorite part of this entire event was when Snakeman and I were walking out to the van and we see this absolutely gorgeous red Chevy sitting in a parking spot with some 19 year old dude with braces sitting in the driver's seat. We wander over to oohhh and awwww (ok, so that's more what I do... Snakeman walks over to see if they have left the original stuff intact or if they chopped it up to accommodate bigger rims or some other nonsense - which just pisses him off) because they dig it when they have awesome rides and people notice.
So we walk over and are circling around the truck and the lucky little teenager who gets to cruise the ride is sitting there smiling because he knows his truck is amazing. Snakeman, being Snakeman, walks up and starts asking him technical questions that I am no where skilled enough to ask. Yet. And while they are talking shop, I'm half listening and half just taking in the beauty that the truck had to offer. And then I hear the dude ask for jumper cables. Which I of course have. How could I not? That would make me unprepared and honestly, that doesn't happen too often. So we go get my van and saddle up next to the awesome Chevy and this picture should pretty much sum up my favorite part of the car show:
All in all, it was awesome and I am so jazzed that Snakeman invited me.
You can see the whole album on my flickr page.
