In Texas we measure distance in time instead of miles, and I got plenty of family and especially in laws who live 1-2 hours from the nearest highway. Maybe our roads are just more well taken care of here; I'm sure it also has a lot to do with the steady above-freezing temperatures. But rarely do I encounter potholes and when I do they don't exist for that long.
If you ever thought an explanation for why you hadn't heard from someone you went on a few dates with in a while was ridiculous, my friend just told me he decided to reach out to a guy he had liked but thought ghosted on him just to see if he'd respond, and when he asked him how he'd been he replied "I don't know about you, but I'm currently on steroids for a minor bout of leprosy." A MINOR. BOUT. OF LEPROSY. I can't stop laughing. Dating is terrible.
How'd he get leprosy, is he in a colony, is your friend in quarantine, and who the fuck gets leprosy? I have to ask this, how common is syphilis in your circle of friends? Is it kind of like getting krabs?
Apparently the doctors can't figure it out, but after my leprosy Wikipedia rabbit hole my preferred guess is from cuddling with an armadillo. And was it the gay guy or some ill-informed idea of leprosy being sexually transmitted that made you think from that post that a lot of my friends have syphilis and crabs?
No it was some bad joke about leprosy being so uncommon that I thought less common things would be more likely if leprosy is in the game, kind of like if thats now possible, the bar has been raised and less common more severe things become more common because of the presence of that. A bad joke with some logic (not great logic but its there) but no class. ....And I apologize, despite what everyone thinks on here thinks (self-deprecating humor), not everything I post is genius
That was my other guess, it was just more fun to rib you. Although syphilis IS on the rise again. One of my favorite fun facts about history is just how many famous/notorious people had syphilis. The number of times I've been in a museum or reading a book and learning about some guy who did something kind of nuts and seen the phrase "it was later determined that he actually suffered from syphilitic brain damage" is hilarious, to me. Of course now I'm blanking on pretty much all of them, except for Al Capone, which I'll never forget thanks to visiting the Eastern State Penitentiary museum with friends I met at Planned Parenthood, and when we got to Capone's cell and the tour guide did the tour guide thing of asking the group what we all knew about Capone, my friend instinctively shouted out HE HAD SYPHILIS and the whole group was completely stone-faced as the guide awkwardly said "y....yes...anyone else?"
I'm headed to South Dakota with the family next week. I've never been, so I'm looking forward to the trip. The 12 hour drive with two small children? Not so much.
So apparently Minnesota is neighbors with South Dakota and so far I've heard that South Dakota is empty wasteland with Indians and a weird statue in it.
Sight seeing the Black Hills is about it as far as South Dakota. Which is still more than North Dakota.
We're going to check out Mount Rushmore, Bear Country USA, Reptile Gardens and other touristy things. Up until now our vacations have only been about four hours away and our focal point has been a zoo (St. Louis and Omaha.) We'll see how this goes.
Because it's a vacation and we want to go somewhere we can't just go any random weekend. Also my husband used to go on Griswold-esque family vacations and he wants the kids to have a similar experience. Growing up my family vacations were camping trips and visits to the state fair. I never left the state until I went to FFA National Convention my sophomore year.