Choose Your Own Adventure with ATOMICTUMOR!
September 22nd, 2006 by Atomictumor
Our stalwart hero, nearing the end of his work week, is facing several choices, and is an indecisive guy!
Can you help? Choose your own adventure and see where you get him!
Lets begin!:
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So tonight’s a Friday night, and we have confirmed babysitting possibilities with GAC’s parents. They’re going to take the kids to the Pellissippi Hot Air Balloon what-have-you if they watch the kids tonight. Problem is, if I get rid of the kids, what will GAC and I do with our night? If left to our own devices, we’ll just end up geeking around on the computer and finally feeling frustrated with the lack of opportunity. There are no interesting movies out, and going out and doing something sounds nice.
On the other hand, MastaG has been itching to go to a football game, and tonight is the Oak Ridge homecoming game. I don’t really like football, but we’ll see friends there, and thats cool. Difficulty here is that Pigpen won’t sit through a football game.
Splitting the kids up is a possibility, but I feel bad having Pigpen at the ILs house without his buddy MastaG (although he probably would just watch Dora the whole time and not notice).
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Time to choose!
1) If you want to send the kids off to the inlaws, and do what the hell ever tonight, turn to page 174.
2) If you want to keep the kids, and go to the football game to hang out with friends and tell Pigpen to sit still 3,000,051 times, spin around 3 times and then hit your head on the desk.
3) If you wish you were at a more interesting website, click this link.
4) If you want to split the kids up, with Pigpen going to the ILs, and MastaG coming to the football game, play the GUILT card and move forward 2 spaces.
5) If you want to go to a carribean vacation, send $5000 cash money to:
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September 22nd, 2006 at 1:45 pm
Maybe you missed the invitation; but that takes care of dinner, and there will be some fun people around.
I don’t think I’d haul the kids to a football game in the rain; they’d be cold and miserable. Save that for a dry night. However, the game should end by 9:30 or so, and there’s likely to be a bit of imbibing going on back at the same place where the tailgate is happening. Sans polititicians (except me, and I don’t count).
Interested? Let me know, and I’ll send you the address.
September 22nd, 2006 at 1:54 pm
Are you kidding? Any opportunity my inlaws give us to take the kids for an evening, we jump on.
Well, dinner and a movie first. The jumping comes later :)
Seriously - go. Do. Have fun. Enjoy. There are so few times parents have these days to just be a couple, you have to take advantage of them…
September 22nd, 2006 at 2:01 pm
Option #6 is to stay at home with everyone huddled around the Lifetime movie of the week. While entranced by the drama of pregnant teenage girl battling an abusive boyfriend, eating disorder and rabid dog you fail to notice the pilot of the stove went out. Yadda yadda yadda… it ain’t sushi no more now that it’s been cooked.
September 22nd, 2006 at 2:49 pm
Barry, typically we ain’t got money for dinner and a movie. Then we spend an hour or so driving around, trying to think of something cheap/free to do or friends to hang out with. The friends (mojo) are never home when we call so we go home. At home we stare at each other, trying desperately to think of something to do, get really frustrated and go to bed. And then the friend calls us at midnight to see why we left a dirty message on his answering machine.
We never think of anything cool or fun to do until it’s too late.
Awww.
Meice, that ain’t likely to happen. We don’t have cable.
September 22nd, 2006 at 3:05 pm
I tried that route once.
Maybe you need some Nigerian penpals.
September 22nd, 2006 at 5:16 pm
How about plan 6 and you all load up and come to the Blueberry Farm where we can sit around and talk about up coming parties and watch Thomas the Tank Engine together?
September 22nd, 2006 at 6:21 pm
Here you go…send the younguns to the IL’s. Check into the Doubletree http://reservations.hotel-guides.us/hotel/10006044-11243322O.html
Enjoy a bubble bath…put a Barry White CD on the portable…
Enjoy the lust. Check out time is noon.
September 22nd, 2006 at 8:53 pm
Jen, I’m wearing a blueberry farm tshirt, does that count?
Daco, why get a hotel room in Oak Ridge? We’ve been married for 10 years, we’re perfectly capable of being bored with each other at home!
September 22nd, 2006 at 9:16 pm
What a boring attitude Mr. ATtitude. Spend the 50 bucks and treat your wife like she is somebody. You will regret it later if you don’t.
September 23rd, 2006 at 8:46 pm
with the exception of about two fridays in the last year, i can be found sitting at my favorite mexican resturant slurping up inexpensive 32oz glasses of dos equis. this practice is recommended and, although not terribly romantic, comparatively inexpensive fun.