When people ask me if I want to go on a road trip with him, I right away have flashbacks to the worst vacation experience of my life.
- Back at the time when I went on this adventure, I absolutely considered it to be a fun & exciting thing to do.
My friends said my superb friend and I were going to pack up the vehicle & see how far my superb friend and I could get across the country. Along the way, my superb friend and I would stop for snacks & camping. My friend and I were not ever going to use a new hotel or to stop at a proper steakhouse. My friend and I simply didn’t have the currency for such amenities. Well, obviously my superb friend and I also didn’t have the currency for any kind of indoor air quality control in the car. My friend and I climbed into the vehicle & went off on our expedition on a warm & humid Summer afternoon. The outdoor air temperature was excruciatingly high that afternoon so my superb friend and I were harshly thrilled to feel the air cold air passing through the vents in the car. The A/C had to be operated at full blast every time my superb friend and I got back in the vehicle because the heat & mugginess were so overwhelming. Everything was going good for the first state or two… And then the central cooling system broke down inside of the vehicle. Suddenly, lukewarm air was passing through all of the vents. Then, warm boiling air felt like it was melting our faces off as it forced its way into the vehicle. My friend and I stopped at a mechanic to see if they could service the AC, but hastily realized that my superb friend and I could not afford the air quality control unit service service. After that, the road trip hastily stopped seeming like a fun adventure & started feeling a lot more like surviving. When I think back to that agitated trip 20 years ago, I refuse to ever take another road trip.