It's Not A Road Trip Unless -

• it begins in the dead of night, and you watch the sunrise somewhere over the desert.
• the highway you're on has more big rigs than cars
• you form a New Song Obsession
• the map gets all refolded wrong, and a corner of it dunked in someone's coffee.
• approximately 6,591,345,877 new inside jokes are born
• someone breaks down and pees in a place they'd really rather not, i.e. a field, a gas station bathroom, a pepsi bottle .......
• someone sings
• somone farts
• the driver shares his/her theory about getting through traffic
• someone falls asleep while driver is sharing his/her theory about getting through traffic
• a diner waitress that looks as though she's 100 years old, wearing very pink lipstick, takes your order
• you make some sort of major life choice on the way, which you may or may not keep when you get home
• you have at least one run-in with a potential serial killer, or at least thats the way you tell it
• you wave at a complete stranger
• you fill the cupholders with kleenex and trail mix bags and ketchup packets, so you have to hold your own drink between your legs
• everyone has at one point said, "We HAVE to do this more."