Our life, available as screenplay!

As I tailgated a limo through Missouri, past Amish buggies and through flooded, closed roads this weekend, I laughed to myself. When I sat on the side of a Missouri Interstate in my mom's car and watched the trooper who'd pulled over the limo chat up my husband, I laughed to myself HARD and thought perhaps our life should be made into a straight-to-DVD movie.... Oh wait, should I back up a bit?

Let's begin with Friday as I left work in the rain, cruisin home in a great mood, ready to head to the fights with Tyler & my brother Brandon. Great mood until some dumbass punk backed UP the interstate onramp and into my car. MY CAR! My precious FJ that I love. Said dumbass got out of car and said "Sorry. I didn't want to get on the interstate" at which point I punched his lights out. Oh wait, just kidding. I WANTED to punch his lights out. Instead I took his DL and called the cops and sat in my car until they arrived. The dumbass admitted it was his fault AND admitted he had NO insurance. So today I'm playing the insurance/rental car/repair shop phonecalls. Which is why I was driving my mom's car Saturday. As for the rest of the story....

Tyler likes to browse Ebay motors and bid on vehicles he could fix up and resell. (In his spare time!) Apparently one day while doing that he saw a 1990 limosine for sale and thought "hm, that's a good deal!" and bid on it. And WON IT. at which point he remembered that good deals are only good deals if it's something you want! All jesting aside though, he got a good price and plans to fix it up a bit and sell it for more, which looking at comparables looks like a good plan. So we now own a limo. a LOOOONG limo with red vinyl seats and carpet, crystal glasses on the bar and 2 tvs and a vhs player. I know our neighbors are scratching their heads after seeing it parked in front of our house!!

OHH, and the flooded streets.....so about 1 mile after leaving the guy's house in Nowheresville, Mo, we hit a 'road closed' sign (during torential rain) but Tyler decides we can make it if we go slow.  So, in limo, he fords the river that was a road. and then it dies. on a closed off rural road. with no cell coverage. in the rain. BUT God was looking out for us and the next truck along was a mechanic who had worked on this limo before and he pulled out his rags, dried something out and off we went!!!

And as for being pulled over....apparently you HAVE to have a license plate in Missouri but we were not far from the Iowa border so he skipped the ticket but he did ask him why he would buy a limo!!  And, super weird, he knew the twin brother of Tyler's sergeant!