Road Trip!

We took a little trip to Fort Jackson to pickup my brother-in-law from basic training. Typically on road trips, Jamie and I have little spats about random stuff. I am the designated driver and Jamie is the self proclaimed navigator. Jamie is always quick to let me know that she would have chosen a different route of travel or she would be traveling at a different speed. "Really woman? You can't find your phone on a daily basis!" I can't help but love her.

We woke up at "Oh God Early" this morning to begin our trip. The plan was to load up the last minute items and then load Charlie while he was still asleep. Errrr! Charlie must have heard the rustling going on and he jumped up like a dog that heard someone say "Squirrel!" "Are you serious child? It is 5:45am." 

I am not a morning person. I am not even a mid-morning person. I like to stay up late and sleep until 11am. My vocabulary in the morning is equivalent to a 2 year old caveman's. I speak in grunts and groans. It drives Jamie crazy. I am not being mean. My brain just does not function until a certain time.

This morning was terrible for me. I was awake way before I should have been, Charlie woke up way too early and I actually had to function. We made a pact last night that we would not have any stupid spats for the entire trip. It was 6:45am and we had been on the road for 2 minutes before that pact went right out the window. The worst part is that it wasn't even about something that mattered. It was about where the soldier that is accused of murdering innocent people in Afghanistan lives. 

I want to make it clear that Jamie and I love each other very much. We do not just look for things to debate. These car ride spats are not knock down, drag out, voice raising fights. They are always about stupid stuff. I forgot ranch for the chicken nuggets, I am driving in the wrong lane or we disagree on where someone we do not even know lives.

After a few minutes of disagreeing on where this random guy lived we looked at each other like "Did we just have that conversation?" We laughed it off and continued our trip. I grunted and told Jamie that she could not talk to me before 10am. She told me that I could not talk for the entire trip. The rest of the ride went great. Let's see how the ride home goes.