Fun with Duck Mo (Part Two of ATSPAP)
I drove down to Austin with Rachel's cousin Duck Mo because he too likes to have his girlfriend live in the Austin area. I didn't really get to hang with him until Sunday night. We had a blast. We went to Slick Willies for billiards. He's really good. I have to rely on blind luck. He beat me a lot. We played two games of darts in which I owned him. By owned I mean that I was marginally less bad than he. Rachel went with us but with work in the morning toasted us with her Guiness and headed home early. We boys stayed until they kicked us out at 2:00am.
It was a lot of fun. It was really the first time I have been able to hang out with him just us two. It's usually in the context of his and Rachel's families or in the context of our Halo clan Hypoxia. We cracked a lot of wise and had a great trip back where we just kept seeing the stupidest things ever, thanks to Podunk, TX that stretches I-35 between Austin and Fort Worth.
The highlight would have to be stopping at the Czech Stop. They have an amazing bakery there. Really good. Not so amazing: their toy aisle. Seriously it was painful. They had an action figure in its plastic and cardboard that you could see was just assembled from lesser action figure parts. An arm there, head here. The flesh-colored paint on the face was actually starting to wear off revealing a dull gray underneath. This had also caused the facial features to wear away. The solution: draw on eyes, eyebrows, nose, and mouth with a felt tip marker. As a rabid collector of action figures I felt I should buy this for $1.98 plus tax just to show it to people or put on this site. Alas, I did not. I take consolation in the fact that it will still be there when I go back by next trip.
The grandaddy misfit toy (of many) however would be a bag of plastic toy insects. Surely you have seen these. Clear plastic bag. Colorful cardboard at the top closure. It read "Insects". It pictured:
A dragonfly - ok.
A grasshopper - alright.
A spider - well, arachnid but close.
A frog - now, wait that's just wrong.
And the king of all insects - an alligator.
"In the bag itself?" you ask. Two plastic lizards.
I only wish I could make this stuff up. Please if you get the chance to stop in the Czech Stop just north of Waco on 35 treat yourself to some delicious sausage cheese rolls and then spend 30 minutes laughing yourself hoarse in the toy aisle. That's where you will find me.
It was a lot of fun. It was really the first time I have been able to hang out with him just us two. It's usually in the context of his and Rachel's families or in the context of our Halo clan Hypoxia. We cracked a lot of wise and had a great trip back where we just kept seeing the stupidest things ever, thanks to Podunk, TX that stretches I-35 between Austin and Fort Worth.
The highlight would have to be stopping at the Czech Stop. They have an amazing bakery there. Really good. Not so amazing: their toy aisle. Seriously it was painful. They had an action figure in its plastic and cardboard that you could see was just assembled from lesser action figure parts. An arm there, head here. The flesh-colored paint on the face was actually starting to wear off revealing a dull gray underneath. This had also caused the facial features to wear away. The solution: draw on eyes, eyebrows, nose, and mouth with a felt tip marker. As a rabid collector of action figures I felt I should buy this for $1.98 plus tax just to show it to people or put on this site. Alas, I did not. I take consolation in the fact that it will still be there when I go back by next trip.
The grandaddy misfit toy (of many) however would be a bag of plastic toy insects. Surely you have seen these. Clear plastic bag. Colorful cardboard at the top closure. It read "Insects". It pictured:
A dragonfly - ok.
A grasshopper - alright.
A spider - well, arachnid but close.
A frog - now, wait that's just wrong.
And the king of all insects - an alligator.
"In the bag itself?" you ask. Two plastic lizards.
I only wish I could make this stuff up. Please if you get the chance to stop in the Czech Stop just north of Waco on 35 treat yourself to some delicious sausage cheese rolls and then spend 30 minutes laughing yourself hoarse in the toy aisle. That's where you will find me.
posted by PostHaste @ 5:16 PM
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