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| 5/25/00
TEXAS BBQ 1/2 PAGE So i figured out yesterday what will ultimately determine whether someobdy is the perfect woman for me. It's a friday afternoon, maybe
the start of a 3-day weekend, maybe not. One of us decides that we are
in the mood for some really good barbeque. I say, "let's drive to
Texas." Becuase there is this place in Fredericksburg Texas that
has the best barbeque in the world. It's a day and a half trip out there
and another day and a half back, all for some really good barbeque which
we don't even know if it'll be there when we get there. Maybe the place
closed or burned down. So of course at first, she'll be like, "we
can't drive to Texas." That's the expected first reaction from anyone
to that type of suggestion. But the perfect woman for me will stop for
a second and go, "well... why CAN'T we drive to Texas? Sure, let's
go to Texas." So we hop in the car and take off down the I-10, driving
through the night, getting into Texas sometime Saturday afternoon. We
stop and sightsee along the way, chill in Fredericksburg for a while.
If it's a 3-day weekend, maybe we spend the night there and don't start
driving back until Sunday afternoon, grabbing lunch at the same barbeque
place again and eating pork and brisket with the best homemade sauce in
the speaking world until our stomachs are going to burst. We get back
into LA completely exhausted and weary from the road, but it doesn't matter.
It's been a great fucking weekend, simply because we were brave and crazy
enough to just say "fuck it" and "why not." And that
is my perfect woman. |
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