The Tuscola Mishap

In our car (wait Yudi's car-to be exact), on our way back to Champaign. There was an air of silence. Only the sound of some classic rock, and some occasional snoring of an exhausted person in the back seat of the car. I too was dead tired, but I tried to stay awake for the sake of being a proper navigator. I was too tired to think or to speak. I relaxed my eyes, and took in the falling snow outside. This is one thing I love to do. Watch the snow in a traveling car. It feels as if you’re running into the flakes of snow without ever getting hit. You feel like you’re traveling through time – or at least that’s the way I imagine it would feel.

Anyhow…that’s not the story. The story begins when the sleeping person in the back seat wakes up with a sudden burst of energy. Disturbed by the piercing silence, he gets jumpy, and ideas start rolling in his heads. Words, words, words, scrambling in his mind. Crazy he (always) was, and crazy it was – the chosen word of the hour, for he decided to pounce on that brilliant question: “What drives you crazy?” “You guys!” I easily answer. No… no… , lets make some slight changes: “Who drives you crazy?” Well that’s a different story.

Now, for some reason these people started to get overly excited in the discussion. Maybe because, buried stories from the past rose to the surface. At least several things got to be straightened out, so that those assumptions that eventually became unverified conclusions were cleared away. Hopefully.

Approaching Champaign we were at the epitome of our happy chit-chat. So then someone decides to drive all the way to Tuscola just to keep moment. Oh well, there’ll only be a few more chances for ‘on-the-spot’ moments like this (pheeww…) since the Champaign Beyatch original member edition will disseminate soon. But on that day something was sealed among us – the fact that when we eventually sit down together at KAFE, perhaps several years from now, we’ll have this moment to embarrass ourselves with (red- one member will use this moment to embarrass the other members about).

Anyway….nice productive trip guys!