Last night, I was coughing and coughing and coughing and could not stop. Shortly after the coughing attack ended, I lost my voice (seemingly, a Christmas miracle to my husband) Try as I might, I could not get my vocal cords to form sounds. And boy did I try.
This morning, on my way to drop my son off at school, I decided to treat myself to a coffee from McDonald's (any size is $1. Great marketing.)
Now, separately these two occurrences would make for a pretty lame blog post, but put them together and POOF! Instant blog fodder.
So, we pull up in the drive through and I have my son give my order at the little microphone thingy,
"ONELARGEcoffeeFORmymompleaseshelost
hervoiceandthatswhyIgettoorderFORHERisn't
THATcool?!"
THATcool?!"
My order was processed we were directed to the next window to pay and pick up the coffee.
At the window, I hand the lady my $1.06 and as I am doing so, I see through the window to the front counter. I am a little surprised that at 7am McDonald's is so busy. There are about 15 people standing at the counter.
The lady hands me my coffee, I mouth the words thank you and I pull the coffee through my window. As I pull the cup in, I hit the steering wheel with it, knocking the cup out of my hands and into my lap. Miraculously the lid stays on, but scalding hot coffee is leaking through the tiny hole in the lid directly into my lap.
So I scream "BALLLLLSAAAACK!!!" (as you do) and my voice is carried- as if on angels wings- through the open window, directly into the ears of the people standing at the counter who all turn and look at the crazy lady screaming private parts at the drive through window.
I wish that I would have chosen a cooler expletive, and I would have, if I'd only known that my voice would choose that exact moment to make its triumphant return.
Ahh Monday. That'll be enough out of you.
ps. My son was SUPER excited to find out that you could use words for body parts as a swear (an early Christmas gift for him).
