Fuzzy Bus

This was going to be about the trip to the vineyards in Modesto, and there were going to be a short series of amusing stories about how the grape made a beautiful vacation for everyone.  This was going to be a write-up of how the hotels in Modesto are some of the nicest in the world, and that there’s always something interesting happening in town.  Some of these things are true and did happen, such as The Hotel, and such as A Trip.  And Modesto was also very much in the picture.

The way it worked out, however, it did not feel like a vacation, and the grapes were the beginning of a much larger issue.  Any time a vacation has issues, you would have to assume that this means there is a bad relationship somewhere.  This much is true.  It’s important here, in order simply to defend myself and the other party involved, that it started out as a good relationship, and one that had been good for about four months.

Four months is the time when a baby begins to develop that very cute baby laugh.  It’s also the time when they start sleeping regularly.  In a relationship, that’s also the time that the couple learns to sleep regularly, and the poets and rock stars would all agree that this is the very beginning of the very end.  You can find your way into the heart of wine country, for example, enjoying the growing familiarity of each other’s rhythms, and you can also notice that these same rhythms are suddenly becoming annoying.

Before I go any further, and I won’t give details because they would make me look worse than I already do, I have no problem with familiarity, and commitment is not the problem.  It’s the place where the other person starts to feel comfortable with you enough that they will consider it good manners to ask you to drive a little slower, and to stay in the lane.  They may also say something about your breath, and how you look like you’re angry about something, and ask you to give them another reason why you care about them.  This might lead to a conversation, or a fight, in the car that lasts for 6 hours, and past the time the wine tour was leaving, and suddenly you might find yourself in Modesto with your own reflection.

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