Gas Prices Too High?

Whew!  I made it back from the NASCAR races!!!  I know, I know...you've just been chompin' at the bit to hear the details, right?  (I'm rollin' my eyes...)  What FUN it was!!!  11 rows off the track!  I heard it, I felt it - I wore it home!  A nice lil' sunburn (working on my freckle collection...), black tire rubber on my cheeks (oh!  red.neck make-up!), gas fumes in my hair (along with a new hair care line!)...and I still can't hear right!  I'm still walkin' around going "what?  WHAT?" - aren't you horribly dis-heartened that you missed that?  (do you think my eyes are going to get stuck from rolling them?  LOL)

It was all just too incredible!  Starting with walking down the infield (or would that be, playing frogger down the infield?) - Every race fan in the tri-state area, and probably a few stragglers from other states, were ALL there!!! I think I walked that whole half of the track with my eyes as big as the platters I luuuuuv... hanging on tight to my fav.o.rite photographer so I didn't get lost in the crowd! Of course, I had to stop at Tony's trailer so I could get a new hat...

I am now the proud owner of a pink hat (I know, orange headed girls aren't supposed to wear pink, but HEY!  It's TONY!!!) with a sparkly 14 front and center! Hel-lo...Tony AND sparkles?  Be still my racing heart...

THEN the REAL fun began!!!  ZZ Top was the opening act (lil' ol' band from Texas!), followed up with the introduction of the drivers (I'm almost CERTAIN that Tony winked at me as he passed by and said, "I'll call you later!") - (there goes the eye roll again!!!), then it came...

Flying through the air as graceful as a bird, a gen-u-wine Chinook helicopter straight from Ft. Hood, Texas.  And guess what?!!?  It landed RIGHT in front of me!  I had to hang on to my seat when it landed, and I had to hang on to my seat and try to find my hat when it left!!!  What did it leave?


The pace car of course (there's the coolest video on that link)!!!  Only in Texas Ya'll!!!

Next up?  A moment of silence in observance of the fallen soldiers from last week's Ft. Hood tragedy, the invocation to get everything kicked off (I love that part.  Why has it been removed from all school events?  I don't get that at ALL!!!) and the Star Spangled Banner!  That song gives me goosebumps each and every time...and to look around at the HUGE crowd in the stands, I know I wasn't the only one!  Flags were flying everywhere the eye could see!  Follow all of THAT up with...

The flyover!  Can you say... VERY LARGE PLANE?!!?  Everything IS bigger in Texas, right?  ha!  Then I heard it...

It came across the loud speakers - It filtered through my scanner - you could feel the excitement in the air and see everyone hold their breath (I think you could have heard a piece of duct tape drop!)..."Gentlemen, START YOUR ENGINES!!!"  That's when i lost my hearing for the next few days. "What?  Huh?"

There were a few bang 'em ups - Jimmie Johnson (the points leader) got taken out in the 2nd lap (He's not one I cheer for, but I have to say - I felt really bad for him and gave him a shout out when he made it back out on the track... over 100 laps later!) and Deb, I'm sorry about the back flip - I did try to get you one!!!

And 'round and 'round they went...and went some more... and went some more!  The Busch brothers fought hard ALL the way through the race - the number 18, Kyle Busch, had the chance to win all 3 races in Texas, but...

this is where the title for this post makes some sense...

MOST OF THE LEADERS RAN OUT OF GAS!!!  I'm not kidding!  It was such a "non-action" race towards the end that they almost ALL of them ran out of gas!!!  Usually at the end of the race I'm standing on top of my seat yelling and shouting and cheering...this time?  None of that!  I was standing on my seat, but looking around going, "what the heck?"!  Cars just RaNDomLy parked here and there - all over the track!  A few coasted (yes - COASTED) in to pit row (a couple almost didn't make it out!!!) - but the end of the race LITERALLY just ran out of go-go juice!!!  The sad part? Number 18, Kyle Busch, ran out of gas AT THE VERY END - after LEADING most of the ENTIRE race (232 of 334 laps)!  Serious fuel situation - took out ALL of the top 5 - with TWO LAPS TO GO!!!  And what about Tony? (I know you're wondering about him - thank you for your concern!!! (eye balls are rollin' yet again...))

 Well, MY man went in and got some gas (when there were a few laps left) and came in 6th... but at least he didn't run out of gas!  Not kidding...cars just RANDOMLY parked all over the Texas Motor Speedway at the end of the race!!!  I giggled all the way out of that race track... then I stopped to get some gas.

Comin' to you LIVE from a single-wide... hee-hee
;-) Robelyn

P.S. Tony - if you are reading this - call me.  Number is: BR549.  YEEEEEE HAW!