More Travel

I'm leaving town again; this time on a business trip to Fort Worth. There will be no Undaground on Thursday or Friday, but please feel free to look around the archives for anything that you may have missed over the last six months.

Someday, I'll have a laptop so I can access the Undaground from my remote locations. Live blogging from Gayapalooza would have been divine.

I wanted my mother to guest-blog after her successful contribution to my birthday post. Unfortunately, she is out of town as well. For all of her fans out there, I think there will be a few days in July when the Undaground Mom will make an appearance.

As for the pregnancy update, Mrs. U is 22 weeks pregnant today. I'm now feeling kicks on a regular basis. We've watched enough of the TLC "A Baby Story" show. Now, we've moved on to "Bringing Home Baby". It seems like a natural progression when it comes to television viewing.

I've watched the first few rounds of "Last Comic Standing". I think I'm done with that show, based on their 12 finalists. I don't know if you've seen this or not. The first few weeks are auditions, followed by a big comedy show where they weed out all the funny people and pick the ones who aren't funny to live in the house.

I went through a drive-thru yesterday, in a moment of weakness, and ordered a value meal. My total was $5.26. In my wallet, I had a $10 and five $1's. I decided that I had enough $1 bills, so I gave the window jockey $11, hoping to get back a five-dollar-bill and some change to consolidate my chattel. Makes sense, right? Well you would have thought I gave the woman a buffalo nickel and some animal pelts. She looked at me with a big, goofy grin on her face. For a moment, I thought that strange smile was a new company initiative, then I realized something was wrong. The look she was giving me was the same look I have on my face when I'm watching a puppy with a blanket on his head. She thought I was an idiot.

"Sir, you gave me WAY too much money, ha, ha."

"Actually, I was hoping I could get a five dollar bill back since I don't have change."

"Oh, OK. Whatever you say."

Listen, drive-thru tellers of world, just input the amount you are given into the cash register and it will do the math for you. Don't try to overthink this. It's simple, really. $11 minus $5.26 equals $5.74.

I'm glad I didn't give her a penny to get quarters back, or her head might have exploded.

Cheers, I'm off to fly the friendly skies (hopefully in an exit row.)