Road Tripping

You know every once in a while you get freaking tired of the city and you just want to piss off to a place where nobody bothers you {or a place where no one knows you, so you can be as much of an ass as you want}.

Personally, I like the mountains and we always take the bus there.

{You don’t want to take a plane to the mountains because its never a 747 or a Cessna that takes you, its one of those rusted gray machines that remind you of your Lego set. And you don’t want to go a wee plane that might just crash into a mountain at the slightest wind change. Of course, if you ever want some atheist to become god-fearing, by all means let him take the flight.}

I hate traveling, I love going to places but hate to travel. Because no matter how hard you try and no matter how excited you are, you always end up with people who make your trip a living nightmare.

I have long legs, so its always hard to travel sitting down in one place for long and you need constant leg space otherwise you feel as comfortable as an orange in a blender.

Normally, when asked to go on a trip to anywhere my first answer is a flat NO, because you can always see yourself squirming on a seat, tossing and turning, trying to sleep and finally wasting two days of your holiday just trying to recover from the journey. No way Hose’.

But they all convince you “the last time it was not a Volvo, this time it’s a Volvo” and they bug your arse for so long that you give in. Hey, it might be a good experience “after all, last time it wasn’t a VOLVO”.

So, you go ahead, pack your bags, head for the bus station. The bus pulls in and looks exactly like the one you boarded last time but everyone say’s different. You get in and Hallelujah, the seats have legroom, how come you never noticed before? You sit down and jump your arse around trying to come to terms that the journey is going to be comfy, when suddenly a large man or woman will come and sit in the seat in front of you and before sitting they will shove their backrest right into your legs.

Aha, this IS the same bus

And no matter how far back you push your seat, the one in front of you is always two inches away from your mouth. And when, you can sleep at night because of lack of oxygen and the ‘chameli ka tel’ on the hair of the fool in front. You look around and see that everybody else has the chairs in semi-inclined position and the only person in front of you is the one trying to make a bed out of his chair.

Trying to make the best of a bad situation, you can take your feet and slide them down the aisle. Normally, that works, its comfortable. But it didn’t quite work so well on the last trip I took to the mountains. You see apart from being a place of solace the mountains are also the ideal honeymoon and second honeymoon spots.

{Now I want to tell all these honeymooners that the sex does not get better at higher altitudes. You only think it does cause your gasping for more oxygen and you think that those are pleasurable sounds. Please, spare your neighbours the torture and your fellow travelers too.}

Coming back, the bus we had boarded was filled with second honeymooners {or as I like to call them HORNYmooners}, who came along with their troop of children and would send them forward to play {in a freaking bus} while they made out under shawls.

I mean, come on, everyone knows what you’re doing. You’re certainly not pretending to be British POW’s in a German camp trying to figure out where the tunnel comes out.

So, I’m lying there with my legs stretched across the aisle and for the first time I’m actually nodding of to sleep when my legs jerk and I hear a thud of about 20 or 30 kilos and I’m thinking “oh shit, someone’s suitcase has fallen down, I hope nobody’s hurt”. And I find this wee little fella lying there picking chips that fell on to the aisle when he tripped on my leg. And its just not him, its like a fricking theme park in the aisle, kids frolicking all around.

The front half of the bus is filled with children trying to play catch‘em’catch at 1 in the night in the AISLE of the bus and the back is filled with couple’s trying to shag each other to glory. And I’m in the middle.

Now I can’t sleep at all; it’s like trying to sleep after watching The Exorcist.
Horrible pictures of what you’ve seen come to mind. And if you don’t sleep properly in the night your entire body heats up and for some strange reason, you can feel your bowels move more strongly.

I don’t know about you but I cannot use the public bathroom under any circumstances. God knows how man hairy butts have been there and what diseases may still roam.

In all my years of traveling there is one thing I’ve learnt forcibly and that’s BLADDER CONTROL. You see, even if you want to pee {and being a man, its much easier cause the world is our loo} you still cant.

I tried it myself once. Didn’t work.

At one of the morning bus breaks I went to relive myself in the woods cause if I didn’t I would need incontinence knickers by the end of our journey. So there’ I am hidden completely behind a tree, pissing away to glory and quite happy that the journey will get over without me wetting my pants when suddenly I hear the sound of bangles. And that’s enough to give me stage fright and I stopped mid-flow.

Again, it was one of those honeymooning couples, whispering sweet nothings into each other’s ears. And you can’t pee if someone is within listening range.

I’m holding on and this woman is rambling about what crockery she wants when they get back home and all I really want to do is jump up from behind the tree, piss all over them, yell HOLI HAI and go back to my shriveled little bucket of a seat in the bus.

Fortunately, after an hour of asking myself “are we there yet?” we made it to our holiday spot. It’s quite a lot of fun, no noise, clean air and most of all no cramped seat and honeymooners.

My family went home after a week. With the memory of the torturous journey still fresh in my mind, I am still here. I shall return only when they figure out the technology for teleportation or when I forget the entire road trip, whichever comes first {hopefully, the former than the latter}.

Remember, if you ever come up to the mountains in the next few years or so. Do come and look me up.