Sometimes I'm Not the Dumb One...an addendum to Tour Guide and Birthright Son

Russell was kind enough to remind me of a few air headed moments that Lee had on our family trip. Thank you Russell. I guess I'm not the only one who has dumb moments. First of all, we were driving through some little town (I'm sure anonymous could tell us what it was) and we passed a place called Sawtooth Luces Restaurant: Pizza and Suds. And Lee said, "That's kind of a cool idea for a restaurant...you know, do your laundry while you eat pizza." To which I'm sure one of us was nice enough to say, "Suds=Beer dummy, not laundry." And then we were driving along playing little games we made up. We play fun games when we are in the car for long drives. Some of our favorites are the plus or minus game, celebrity death match using relatives instead of celebrities, games to test our knowledge of random facts, and little philosophical or ethical mind games which usually leads to interesting topics of conversation. I remember one time Lee and I were driving from Provo to home and Lee had recently heard the quote that "Stupid people spend most of their time talking about other people, people of normal intelligence spend most of their time talking about events, and intelligent people spend their time talking about ideas." So Lee and I decided that for the next 4 hours of the drive we would talk only about ideas. It was actually pretty hard, but was interesting to see the range of topics we covered. But anyway, on this most recent family trip somebody came up with the idea of playing a game where you go around in a circle and each name a country that starts with the letter "A", and then "B" and so on. Whoever is the last one that can't name a country is out and then once you have a winner you start over again. It is actually pretty fun. Especially with Lee in the backseat trying to make up country names and seeing if Ty, Russell and I would notice. We did. That game soon led us to the game where one of us would name a nickname of a state, like the Show Me State, for example, and then the first person to correctly yell out the name of the state would win. We went through all the state nicknames that we could come up with, and thanks to Russell (he's full of random information), we were able to come up with quite a few but soon enough we were running out and it started to get quiet. Then Lee pipes up from the back, "What's that state, the one with the t-shirts?...Oh yeah it is Vermont." The rest of us: "What are you talking about Lee?" Lee: "You know, those t-shirts that say Lovers are from Vermont." Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Don't you mean, Virginia is for Lovers? I still don't get why "Virginia is for lovers," though. Maybe I should go there someday and find out. Oh wait, I have been there, and I don't remember anything about any lovers. Maybe I was too young. Well, anyway, I don't think any of us had gotten enough sleep that day. We were all a little off. But it was fun anyway. And sorry to Tyler that I didn't mention you by name in the last post, but you were in three of the pictures, even if you were just Sasquatch in the background of one of them. And...how is it that my blog got EIGHTY views today and I only got like ONE new comment? Come on, there can't be that many random Chinese people accidentally clicking on my blog. Who are all of you leeches??? I mean, with 80 views in one day I would expect that at least one-eighth of the readers would like my post enough to comment. Looks like I'm going to have to publicly bust and humiliate some leeches.